Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Jonah Hill's directorial debut Mid90s is a beautiful portrait of how the community surrounding a shared youth culture (in this case skating in the mid-90s) can both help and hinder a troubled, anxsty young mind. We see Stevie (brilli... Read the full review »

Following an incredible trilogy all about the bittersweet sorrow associated with children growing up, Toy Story 3 (2010) ended on the perfect note - that letting kids go is hard, but that life can go on afterwards. In the surprise sequel Toy Story... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'A Clockwork Orange' is another comical, theatrical film about humanity from Stanley Kubrick, but here he broadcasts a particularly dark and damming future. Indeed, in the words of the legendary Mark Kermode, Kubrick offers only two... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Donnie Brasco' is one of many "sensitive" gangster films to grace our screens since The Godfather, but it crucially does a far better job than most of building genuine empathy for its central characters. Yes thanks in large part to... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: '2001: A Space Odyssey' arguably aims higher than any film before it - or indeed after - as Stanley Kubrick remarkably sets out to explore the entire fate of humanity here whilst testing the very limits of cinema's capabilities. But... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Dr Strangelove' is Stanley Kubrick at his most overtly theatrical and humorous, and in that regard you could argue that it's Stanley Kubrick at his most Stanley Kubrick. Yes as far as I'm concerned it's clear throughout his entire f... Read the full review »