Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part One. By Simon Thompson. Jean Pierre Melville is a director with a career that is simultaneously both easy and difficult to categorise at the s...
William Friedkin (1935-2023) Career Retrospective. By Simon Thompson. William Friedkin was one of the great iconoclasts in the history of American filmmaking, a director for whom the term “mad lad” wo...
Ariel Back to Buenos Aires Review. By Simon Thompson Alison Murray’s Ariel Back to Buenos Aires is a Pedro Almodóvar- like tale which balances being a family drama alongside being a love-letter to the...
Interpreters Wanted: Review. By Simon Thompson. Robert Ham’s Interpreters Wanted is a sobering, poignant documentary about both the brave and overlooked sacrifice that Afghan interpreters made in help...
Alone Together: Review. By Simon Thompson The advent of Jordan Peele has been a somewhat double-edged sword for the horror genre : on the one hand he has given us one admittedly excellent movie (Get O...