By Jack Hawkins. This is a quiet, solemn little film about change, nostalgia and odyssey. Our focaliser is Kit (Henry Golding), a British-Vietnamese man who returns to his birth country some 30 years ...
By Jack Hawkins. Of the five incendiary years since Donald Trump announced his run for president, 2020 may well be the most bilious and divisive of them all. Indeed, it could be the nadir of 21st cent...
By Jack Hawkins. Twenty-nine years ago, in the fall of 1990, a film adaptation of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, seemed unlikely. For this was a book deemed so violent, so pornographi...
By Jack Hawkins. In 1997, action thrillers such as Face/Off, Con Air and Air Force One commanded hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. The camerawork was slick and the spectacle was satis...
With 2017 gone and 2018 in full swing, it is time to look back at some of the best films of the past year. 2017 was a year of huge diversity in terms of the genres of films, and it is not easy to pick...