Graham Williamson Films, Writing and Art

The Geek Show Articles (2015- )

Articles

I'm the senior contributor to The Geek Show, a North-East English review site. You can find our Patreon here, which contains a lot of stuff that isn't available anywhere else including an X-Files review series I write. This is a work-in-progress list of everything I've written for The Geek Show.

I've also done longer series about Doctor Who and Twin Peaks, which are collected on their own pages - just click the links!

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'Illustrious Corpses (1976): The Paranoid Style in Italian Thrillers' (2nd February 2026)

'Testimony (2025): Sensitively Reopening the Case on Ireland's Darkest Secrets' (21st November 2025)
'The Maiku Hama Trilogy (1994-6): Film Noir Through a Vividly Japanese Lens' (19th November 2025)
'Pocket Money (1976): joyful, humane, ripe for rediscovery' (6th November 2025)
'Manthan (1976): the birth of crowd-funding?' (29th October 2025)
'Altered States (1980): Ken Russell's Primeval Hollywood Trip' (27th October 2025)
'Frankie Maniac Woman (Grimmfest 2025)' (13th October 2025)
'Wendy and Lucy (2008): Pedigree Take on a Dog's Life' (8th October 2025)
'A Woman Called Mother (Fantastic Fest 2025)' (23rd September 2025)
'Saving Face (2004): A Happy Ending for Alice Wu's Cult Romance' (2nd September 2025)
'Who Wants to Kill Jessie (1966): Barbarella vs Superman in Communist Czechoslovakia!' (28th August 2025)
'Films by Zoltan Huszarik (1963-1979): Life, Death and One Incredible Box Set' (28th July 2025)
'Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive (1989): Even Wilder than the Title Suggests' (25th July 2025)
'Zero (2024): Senegalese Suspense from a New Studio with a Big Mission' (25th July 2025)
'The Box Man (2024): Far From Boxed-In Cinema From Sporadically Productive Genius' (8th July 2025)
'Divine Love (2019): An All-Too-Conceivable Dystopia' (7th July 2025)
'The Wind Will Carry Us (1999): Kiarostami in the Country' (16th June 2025)
'Ishanou (1990): Indian Regional Cinema Probes the Mystery of Faith' (3rd June 2025)
'Noise (2017): Getting to the Truth of True Crime' (25th April 2025)
'Hardboiled: Three Pulp Thrillers by Alain Corneau' (24th March 2025)
'The Barnabas Kos Case (1965): Triangle of Madness' (18th March 2025)
'Play It Cool (1970): Walking the Fine Line Between Melodrama and Exploitation' (16th March 2025)
'Escape from the 21st Century (2024): Everything, Everywhere, Even More Than That' (25th February 2025)
'The Gift (2000): Sam Raimi's Southern Gothic is Worth Unearthing' (5th February 2025)
'The Usual Suspects (1995): Better Left in the '90s?' (10th January 2025)

'The Fisher King (1991): Robin Williams's Best Role in Terry Gilliam's Most Accessible Film' (10th December 2024)
'Son of Adam (London International Fantastic Film Fest 2024)' (1st December 2024)
'Super Spies and Secret Lies: Three Undercover Classics from Shaw Brothers (1966-1969)' (25th November 2024)
'Pharaoh (1966): Polish Epic Offers a Very Different Kind of Sword-and-Sandal Picture' (16th September 2024)
'Video Vision (FrightFest 2024)' (25th August 2024)
'Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (2024): Nimbly Avoids the Curse of Prequelitis' (16th August 2024)
'Santa Sangre (1989): Carnage at the Circus in Jodorowsky's Chaotic Classic' (29th July 2024)
'Poolman (2023): It's Not Chris Pine's The Big Lebowski, But It's Not Bad Either' (26th June 2024)
'The G (2023): Lean, Realist Revenge Thriller Puts a Welcome Spotlight on Dale Dickey' (21st June 2024)
'The Crazy Family (1984): Energetic Bad-Taste Comedy Breaks Down the Traditional Japanese Family Drama' (17th June 2024)
'Trenque Lauquen (2022): There's Something Big Happening in Argentina' (31st May 2024)
'Hamlet (2024): Age Cannot Wither McKellen's Great Dane' (4th April 2024)
'Three films by Jerzy Skolimowski: Walkover, Barrier and Dialogue 20-40-60' (1965-68)' (26th March 2024)
'Happy End (1967): The Kind of Film That Could Spark a Lifelong Obsession with Czech Comedy' (25th March 2024)
'Danger Zone (Kinoteka 2024)' (14th March 2024)
'One Percenter (2023): Japanese Fall Guy Delivers Eighty-Five Minutes of Mayhem' (12th March 2024)
'A Wolfpack Called Ernesto (2023): Experimental Look at Mexican Gang Culture' (23rd February 2024)
'Experimental Shorts (Slamdance Film Festival 2024)' (26th January 2024)
'Demon Mineral (Slamdance Film Festival 2024)' (24th January 2024)
'The Civil Dead (2022): A Mumblecore Shaggy Dog Story with None of the Downsides' (18th January 2024)

'Murder Obsession (1981): Late-Period Meta-Giallo With Some Unforgettable Set-Pieces' (19th December 2023)
'Booger (Soho Horror Fest 2023)' (29th November 2023)
'Hippo (Soho Horror Film Festival 2023)' (28th November 2023)
'Lost in the Night (2023): The Environmental Thriller too Pulpy for Cannes?' (24th November 2023)
'Door (1988) and Door 2 (1991): The High Art of Gut-Level Sleaze' (31st October 2023)
'8 Found Dead (2022): Crime Thriller Playing Guess the Subgenre' (23rd October 2023)
'It Lives Inside (2023): Comfortingly Uncomfortable Horror with a Twist' (20th October 2023)
'Interrogation (1982): Merciless, Kafkaesque, a Two-Hour Pressure Cooker' (19th September 2023)
'Apocalypse Clown (2023): David Earl Leads a Circus at the End of the World' (31st August 2023)
'Transmission (FrightFest 2023)' (30th August 2023)
'Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow (FrightFest 2023)' (29th August 2023)
'Hostile Dimensions (Frightfest 2023)' (28th August 2023)
'Film Noir Collection Vol. 3: Calcutta, Ride the Pink Horse, Outside the Law, The Female Animal (1946-1958)' (7th August 2023)
'Skinamarink (2022): TikTok's Favourite Liminal Horror Makes its Blu-Ray Bow' (3rd July 2023)
'Le Mepris (1963): The Odd Couple Godard and Bardot Make a Classic' (29th June 2023)
'Smooth Talk (1985): Should Now be Considered an American Classic' (28th June 2023)
'Red Sun (1970): Between the Commune and the Comic-Book' (22nd June 2023)
'The Hot Spot (1990): More Fun Than Eating Cotton Candy Barefoot' (21st June 2023)
'Twilight (1990): An Irresistible Challenge that Upends the Detective Genre' (12th June 2023)
'The Lighthouse (2019): A 4K Illumination for a Modern Cult Classic' (8th June 2023)
'Hopping Mad: The Mr. Vampire Sequels (1986-1989)' (22nd May 2023)
'Naked Lunch (1991): A Special Edition Big Enough to Feed Anyone's Addiction' (17th April 2023)
'The Pawnshop (Kinoteka 2023)' (29th March 2023)
'The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2022)' (23rd March 2023)
'My Drywall Cocoon (SXSW 2023)' (14th March 2023)
'Smoking Causes Coughing (Glasgow Frightfest 2023)' (13th March 2023)
'Vivre Sa Vie (1962): Godard, the Ultimate Cinephile, Makes His Most Emotional Film' (13th February 2023)
'You Resemble Me (2021): The Real Person Behind the Fake News' (3rd February 2023)
'El Mar La Mar (2017): Experimental Cinema in One of Earth's Most Hostile Landscapes' (31st January 2023)
'The Lukas Moodysson Collection (1998-2013)' (30th January 2023)

'Mississippi Masala (1991): Cross-Culture Romance with a Young Denzel Washington' (15th December 2022)
'Rimini (2022): Looking for the Shaft of Light in Ulrich Seidl's Sensibilities' (9th December 2022)
'Father Earth (2022): Big Issues Tackled in Graham Fellows's Small-Scale Fashion' (2nd December 2022)
'The Power of the Dog (2021): An Inspirational Western for Those with the Patience to Ride With It' (28th November 2022)
'Son of the White Mare (1981): A One-Man Mission to Demonstrate Animation's Possibilities' (15th November 2022)
'Tales of Unease (1970): Paperback Horror Brought to Life in an Unjustly Forgotten Series' (11th November 2022)
'Gothico Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror (1963-66)' (20th October 2022)
'The Amusement Park (1975): George A Romero's Lost Film Comes Back from the Dead' (14th October 2022)
'Identification of a Woman (1982): Antonioni Enters the '80s, as Provocative as Ever' (20th September 2022)
'The Feast (2021): The First Welsh-Language Horror Movie Doesn't Want for Ambition' (18th August 2022)
'Summertime (1955): David Lean's Favourite David Lean Film' (27th July 2022)
'Larks on a String (1969): Saved from the Scrapheap of Censorship' (18th July 2022)
'Wayfinder (2022): A Wilderness That Could Do With Some More Wildness' (1st July 2022)
'Theo and the Metamorphosis (2021): Uncomfortable for the Right Reasons' (24th June 2022)
'Moon, 66 Questions (2021): Subtly Strange Carer's Story that Resists Easy Comparisons' (21st June 2022)
'Outside the Law (1920): Dated Depictions Can't Overshadow Tod Browning's Genius' (14th June 2022)
'Enter the Void (2009): A City Symphony in 21st-Century Neon' (31st May 2022)
'Luminous Procuress (1971): If an Alien Made a Film About Human Sexuality, It Would Look Like This' (27th May 2022)
'Twisting the Knife: The Swindle (1997) and The Colour of Lies (1999)' (28th April 2022)
'The Big Racket (1976) and Heroin Busters (1977): Two Films by Enzo G Castellari' (19th April 2022)
'In the Family (2011) and The Grief of Others (2015): Two Films by Patrick Wang' (7th April 2022)
'To Sleep So As To Dream (1986): Silent Japanese Dream Detectives!' (29th March 2022)
'Boat People (1982): Ann Hui's Controversial Snapshot of Post-War Vietnam' (21st March 2022)
'Europa (2022): Gripping Outsider's View of Fortress Europe' (17th March 2022)
'Bartleby (1970): Literature's Greatest Enigma Gets a Fine, Clever Modernisation' (4th March 2022)
'Lies and Deceit: Madame Bovary (1991), Betty (1992), Torment (1994)' (22nd February 2022)
'A Bread Factory Parts One and Two (2018): Epic Art-World Comedy' (18th February 2022)
'Seance (2021): Standard Slasher with One Killer Extra' (18th January 2022)
'Jakob's Wife (2021): Eternally Left-Turning Modern Vampire Movie' (13th January 2022)
'In the Realm of the Senses (1976): Legendary Arthouse Shocker Returns, Its Power Undimmed' (3rd January 2022)

'2021 Blow-Out: Giants and Toys (1958), Running Against the Wind (2019), Menace II Society (1993), The Millionaires' Express (1986)' (30th December 2021)
'Original Cast Album: Company (1970): Have I Got a Film for You!' (27th December 2021)
'Current (1964): A Calm Surface with a Darker Undertow' (10th December 2021)
'Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976): An Outrageous Buddy-Cop Film from a Video Nasties Legend' (8th December 2021)
'Two New Criterions: Devi (1960) and The Thin Red Line (1998)' (3rd December 2021)
'Dementia 13 (1962): The B-Horror That Gave Us The Godfather' (19th November 2021)
'We Need to Do Something (2021): Ambitious Lockdown Horror with One Twist Too Many' (28th October 2021)
'No Man of God (2021): Not the Bundy Biopic You May be Fearing' (26th October 2021)
'Love & Basketball (2000): And a Lot More Besides' (25th October 2021)
'Violation (2020): Hardcore Revenge Without the Toxicity' (21st October 2021)
'La Dolce Vita (1960): When Fellini Became Fellini-esque' (20th October 2021)
'Death Screams (1982): And the Essential Innocence of Early Slashers' (29th September 2021)
'Johnny Guitar (1954): Oh, Vienna!' (28th September 2019)
'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992): Reassessment of Lynch's "Pathologically Unpleasant" Film is Complete' (10th September 2019)
'All About Eve (1950): Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's a Double-Disc Criterion' (26th August 2021)
'Mirror (1975): Tarkovsky Shows Us His Dreams, His Memories and His Lasting Influence' (6th August 2021)
'Pariah (2011): The Most Influential 2010s Film You Haven't Seen' (26th July 2021)
'The Babadook (2014): The Reigning Champ of Modern Horror Gets the Reissue it Deserves' (23rd July 2021)
'Straight Shooting (1917) and Hell Bent (1918): John Ford Quietly Establishes the Western's Essentials' (5th July 2021)
'But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999): The Best John Waters Film Waters Never Made' (23rd June 2021)
'Merrily We Go to Hell (1932): A Devil of a Time With a Future Star' (15th June 2021)
'The Silence Before Bach (2007) and Mudanza (2008)' (26th May 2021)
'Masculin Feminin (1966): Further Adventures of Jean-Luc Godard' (17th May 2021)
'A Glitch in the Matrix (2021): Room 237 Director's Latest Labyrinth' (10th May 2021)
'I Start Counting (1969): Or, When is a Reissue Really a Box Set?' (6th May 2021)
'The Darjeeling Limited (2007): Wes Anderson's Problem Play' (26th April 2021)
'Tales from the Urban Jungle: Brute Force (1947) and The Naked City (1948)' (12th April 2021)
'Two Martial Arts Films: Russian Raid (2020) and Winners & Sinners (1983)' (23rd March 2021)
'Lost in America (1985): Some Kind of Comic Masterpiece' (22nd March 2021)
'Breeder (2020): Reclaiming the Torture Horror?' (26th February 2021)
'Host (2020): As Good on Blu-Ray as it was on Streaming' (16th February 2021)
'Charade (1963): One Perfect Story-Telling Machine' (15th February 2021)
'Rams (2020): Not Quite the GOAT, but a Touching Shaggy Sheep Story' (5th February 2021)
'A Rainy Day in New York (2019): And a Grim Day for Woody Allen Fans' (21st January 2021)
'Liberté (2019): If You Go Down to the Woods Today...' (11th January 2021)
'2020 Films You Might Have Missed...' (4th January 2021)

'The New World (three cuts, 2005-8): Choose Your Own Adventure' (30th December 2020)
'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes By William Greaves (1968/2005): Red-Hot Takes' (14th December 2020)
'Mouchette (1967): The Kind of Serious Art Cinema That Just Isn't Made Anymore' (8th December 2020)
'How You Live Your Story: Selected Works By Kevin Jerome Everson (2005-2020)' (9th November 2020)
'Sweet Charity (1969): A Musical for Its Time and Ours' (27th October 2020)
'Eraserhead (1976): A Treasure Trove Release for Fans of David Lynch' (16th October 2020)
'Real (2019): Breezy but Uneven Cycle Through Working-Class Romance' (4th September 2020)
'Story of a Love Affair (1950): Lies, PIs and Neorealism from Antonioni' (5th August 2020)
'Mr. Vampire (1985): The Audacity of Hop' (24th July 2020)
'Czechmate - In Search of Jíři Menzel (2018): A Love Letter to Czech New Wave' (14th July 2020)
'Scorsese Shorts (1963-74): Supremely Confident First Steps of a Master' (29th June 2020)
'John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Way Outside the West' (28th April 2020)
'Curling (2010): Grips in Ways a Standard Hollywood Thriller Can't Manage' (13th April 2020)
'The Navigator (1924): Still Hugely Impressive Today' (2nd April 2020)
'Antonio Gaudi (1984): Pure Cinema Explores Pure Imagination' (6th March 2020)
'The Essential Jacques Demy (1961-1982): A Constant Conveyor Belt of Delights' (18th February 2020)
'The Winslow Boy (1948): Remarkably Empathetic and Genuine' (3rd February 2020)

'The Halfway House (1944): Beguiling Ealing, With Hints of Later Ghost Stories' (25th December 2019)
'Moonrise Kingdom (2011): Revel in the Artificiality!' (27th November 2019)
'Rabid (2019): Mutating to Its Heart's Content' (7th October 2019)
'Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955): An Astonishing Arsenal of Animator's Tricks' (4th October 2019)
'The Third Wife (2018): An Unsensational Film That's Caused a Big Fuss' (23rd August 2019)
'Inseminoid (1980): Dynamic, Provocative, Extravagantly Tasteless' (31st July 2019)
'A Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970): As Thoroughly Bananas as the Title Suggests' (28th June 2019)
'The Captor (2018): True Crime a la Blumhouse' (25th June 2019)
'How I Won the War (1966): Much More Than Just Beatles Trivia' (28th May 2019)
'A Face in the Crowd (1957): The American Nightmare, Years Ahead of its Time' (13th May 2019)
'Breaking the Limits (2017): Punkish Polish Biopic' (8th May 2019)
'The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018): 21st-Century Tall Tales' (7th May 2019)
'Everybody in Our Family (2012): Atmospheric, Touching and Defiantly Small-Scale' (29th April 2019)
'Anna and the Apocalypse (2017): Equal Parts Toe-Tapping and Head-Smashing' (26th April 2019)
'The Song of Bernadette (1943): A Film of Faith, But Not Blind Faith' (17th April 2019)
'To Sleep With Anger (1990): The Eternally Youthful Charles Burnett' (28th Marcy 2019)
'Kolobos (1999)': Soft Satire, But Hard Gore' (11th March 2019)
'The Boys in the Band (1970): After Stonewall, Before Pride' (1st March 2019)
'Shoah - The Four Sisters (2018): Chamber Pieces from a Historical Nightmare' (19th February 2019)
'Opera (1987): Argento is No Ordinary Horror Director and This No Ordinary Horror Film' (15th January 2019)
'Josie (2018): To Be Bad You Have to Recognise That You're Bad' (14th January 2019)

'Texas Adios (1966): A Glimpse of the Spaghetti Westerns Yet to Come' (17th December 2018)
'Early Films by Olivier Assayas (1986 and 1989)' (29th November 2018)
'The Tree of Life (2011): A Film We'll Never Stop Talking About' (22nd November 2018)
'Project A (1983) and Project A Part II (1987): Jackie Chan, Cinephile' (13th November 2018)
'Gas Food Lodging (1992): A Quintessential 2018 Indie Movie Made in 1992' (12th November 2018)
'Hitler's Hollywood (2017): Modern History and its Cinema's Darkest Days' (5th November 2018)
'Eye of the Needle (1981) and Rescue Under Fire (2017): Two War Movies' (12th October 2018)
'Myrkas of the World Unite: Is Doctor Who Posh, Part Two' (6th October 2018)
'House of Salem (2016): A Confidently Staged British Occult-Kidnap Thriller Debut' (1st October 2018)
'Myrkas of the World Unite: Is Doctor Who Posh?' (29th September 2018)
'Iceman (2018): Payback in the Palaeolithic' (17th September 2018)
'Separate Tables (1963): Sophisticated Fun, Save for Some Inadvertent Unpleasantness' (21st August 2018)
'The Miraculous Virgin (1966): A Virtuoso Exercise of Imagery and Poetry' (17th August 2018)
'Under the Tree (2017): Icelandic Black Comedy Fails to Live Up to Its Early Promise' (16th August 2018)
'F for Fake (1973): Orson Welles's Beguiling, Adventurous Art Documentary Swansong' (30th July 2018)
'Samuel Fuller at Columbia (1937-61)' (10th July 2018)
'Black Peter (1964): The Origins of Czech New Wave's Greatest Export' (9th July 2018)
'Dark River (2017)... and the Continued Ascent of Clio Barnard' (26th June 2018)
'Jubilee (1978): Pure Punk and Pure Derek Jarman' (16th June 2018)
'Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985): The Antidote to Biopic Fatigue' (11th June 2018)
'Allure (2017): A Modern Equivalent to '90s Psychological thrillers Like Single White Female' (17th May 2018)
'Metropolitan (1990): Whit Stillman's Comedy of High Society Manners' (10th May 2018)
'Early Hou Hsaio-Hsien: Three Films 1980-1983' (27th April 2018)
'La Chinoise (1967): More Fun Than the Dry, Doctrinaire Godard it is Accused of Being' (23rd April 2018)
'Sleeping Dogs (1977): A Dystopia So Stark it Makes Mad Max Look Like Mad Max: Fury Road' (13th April 2018)
'Shirley - Visions of Reality (2013): A Beautiful, Off-Kilter Recreation of Edward Hopper's Painting' (21st March 2018)
'Hotel Salvation (2017): A Respectful, Tender Exploration of Old Age and Dying' (2nd March 2018)
'Silence and Cry (1968): A Thought-Provoking Portrait of a Unique Director at a Critical Juncture in History' (22nd February 2018)
'Michael (1924): Carl Th. Dreyer's Phantom Thread' (16th February 2018)
'House (1977): Completely Within its Own Erratic, Mesmerising Orbit' (12th February 2018)
'The Mystery of Picasso (1956): A Meeting of Auteurs - Picasso & Clouzot' (29th January 2018)
'Blue Collar (1978): The Bleakest Picture of the Working Week in American Cinema' (25th January 2018)
'Charley Varrick (1973): The Casual Appeal of Walter Matthau' (22nd January 2018)

'Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971): A Deliciously Stylish, Melodramatic Occult Hammer Horror' (6th December 2017)
'The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976): The Arty-Yet-Exploitative End of the Video Nasties List' (4th December 2017)
'Sherlock Jr. (1924): A Silent Comedy Far Ahead of Its Time' (20th November 2017)
'Manina, The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (1949): Host to the Best Extra Feature of 2017?' (15th November 2017)
'Voice of the Moon (1990): The Master, Federico Fellini's Final Film' (2nd November 1990)
'JD's Revenge (1976): In Touch with its Culture, and Has Ideas That Transcend its Budget' (27th October 2017)
'The Gorgon (1964): Hammer's Terence Fisher Tackles Greek Mythology' (26th October 2017)
'The Haunting (1963): The Impenetrable Monochrome Terror of Black-and-White Horror' (25th October 2017)
'The Vikings (1958): The Closest the Viking Genre Has to a John Ford Movie' (19th October 2017)
'Vampir Cuadecuc (1971): A Surprisingly Sensual and Beautiful Avant-Garde Vampire Movie' (2nd October 2017)
'Certain Women (2016): A Grown-Up, Unironic, Realist Film About Ordinary People Going Through Ordinary Challenges' (29th September 2017)
'Song to Song' (19th September 2017)
'Every Picture Tells a Story: The Art Films of James Scott (1967-84)' (29th August 2017)
'Lord of the Flies (1963): Literary Classic Lives and Dies on the Shoulders of Its Child Actors' (28th August 2017)
'Joe Orton: Loot and Entertaining Mr. Sloane (both 1970)' (21st August 2017)
'Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954): Jean Gabin and Jacques Becker's Radical Chic' (14th August 2017)
'J'Accuse (1938): World War I Historical Epic with Silent Film and Grindhouse Brio' (26th July 2017)
'The Levelling (2016): An Incredible, Sympathetic Film on the Plight of the Modern Farmer' (17th July 2017)
'Stormy Monday (1988): Mike Figgis's Anti-American Moody Noir' (11th July 2017)
'Daughters of the Dust (1991): Recalls Tarkovsky, Resnais or Any Other Sanctified European Arthouse Auteur You Might Care to Name' (30th June 2017)
'Stockholm, My Love (2016): The Audacity That Marks Out the Best Documentary-Fiction Hybrids is Missing' (26th June 2017)
'Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016): It's a Tribute to Life, In All Its Messy Glory' (12th June 2017)
'Mulholland Drive (2001): It's No Wonder David Lynch's Work Inspires Such Devotion' (29th May 2017)
'Madame De... (1953): Much More Satisfying Than Just High-Society Glitz and Melancholy' (24th May 2017)
'Why Modern Hollywood Hates Plot Twists' (15th May 2017)
'The Informer (1929): 90-Year-Old Silent Political Thriller Feels Timeless' (28th April 2017)
'The Lady From Shanghai (1947): Orson Welles's Infamously Cut-to-Pieces Noir Returns' (21st April 2017)
'My 20th Century (1989): A Full-On Thermonuclear Blast of Intellectual, Comic and Sensory Pleasure' (22nd March 2017)
'Story of Sin (1975): The Standard by Which All Other Blu-Ray and DVD Releases Should Now Be Judged' (13th March 2017)
'Alice (1990): Woody Allen, Stepping Out of the Shadow of His Comedy' (17th February 2017)
'Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989): Woody Allen's Narrative Pleasures are Worth the Wait' (15th February 2017)
'The Glass Shield (1994): Underneath the Popcorn-Movie Surface is a Nuanced, Astute Neo-Noir' (25th January 2017)
'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): The First Horror Film Ever That Truly Chills' (24th January 2017)

'The Emigrants/The New Land (1971-2)' (27th December 2016)
'The Royal Tenenbaums (2001): Wes Anderson at His Profoundly Sad, Moving and Redemptive Best' (11th December 2016)
'In Defence of - Invincible' (29th November 2016)
'The Hired Hand (1971): A Long-Lost Masterpiece from Peter Fonda' (25th November 2016)
'Stella Cadente (2014): Shakespeare's Richard II as a Peter Greenaway Film' (31st October 2016)
'Looking for Richard (1966): Al Pacino on the Creative Process and Shakespeare' (29th October 2016)
'Christine (1983): The Ugly Duckling of Carpenter's '80s Run Gets the Respect It Deserves' (27th October 2016)
'The Hills Have Eyes (1977): The Evolution of Wes Craven, The Rule-Breaker' (25th October 2016)
'Paris Blues (1962): Comes to Life With the Jazz and the Style' (20th October 2016)
'Cosmos (2015): Žuławski Ransacks His Knowledge of Art and Pop Culture for the Most Surreal Swansong (18th October 2016)
'One Million Years BC (1966): Harryhausen, Dinosaurs and the Legendary Bikini' (17th October 2016)
'The Sacrifice (1986): Tarkovsky's Acutely Intelligent Swansong' (2nd October 2016)
'Carmen Jones (1954): Influential Black Musical With a Weird Relationship to Race' (27th September 2016)
'Tartuffe (1925): Dynamic, Daring and Full of Beautiful Compositions, It's Definitely More Than Lesser Murnau' (21st September 2016)
'Cat People (1942): One of the Most Singular, Groundbreaking Horror Movies in American History' (19th September 2016)
'The Glass Key (1942): The Veronica Lake Show' (17th September 2016)
'Fox and His Friends/Chinese Roulette (1975): The Many Faces of Fassbinder' (8th September 2016)
'Stalker (1979): Tarkovsky's Infamous and Unfettered Artistic Vision' (27th August 2016)
'Sweet Bean (2015): Naomi Kawase, As Bolstered By Infusions of Documentary Realism' (22nd August 2016)
'The Shop on the High Street (1965): A Perfume to Mask the Smell of Death' (21st August 2016)
'The In-Laws (1979): A Pure-Bred Comedy Unicorn' (16th August 2016)
'Burroughs: The Movie (1983): A Bizarre Treat for Fans of William S. Burroughs' (3rd August 2016)
'The Taviani Brothers Collection (1977-84): Reality and Fiction Working Together' (25th July 2016)
'Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016): Pulls off the Impossible' (15th July 2016)
'The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974): Jack Hill's Sleazy Entree Into the High School Comedy' (4th July 2016)
'Joshua Oppenheimer - Early Work 1995-2003: It's Hard to Imagine Any Limit to His Imagination' (28th June 2016)
'Ivan's Childhood (1962): Once You've Seen It, You Won't Want to Live in a World Without It' (27th June 2016)
'Richard III (1995): Ready to be Reclaimed as a Masterpiece' (20th June 2016)
'The Club (2015): Offers its Characters Nowhere to Hide, No Sunlight to Enjoy, No Corners to Cower In' (11th June 2016)
'Edvard Munch (1974): Peter Watkins's Fight to be Free of Genres, Formats and Cliches' (9th June 2016)
'The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)' (3rd June 2016)
'Expresso Bongo (1959): Cliff Richard in Pre-Swinging London Rock 'n' Roll Musical' (28th May 2016)
'Beat Girl (1959): British B-Movie That Found a Second Life in 60s America' (17th May 2016)
'The Last Command (1928): The Inaugural Best Actor Award Winner' (12th May 2016)
'Ran (1985): Home to One of the Greatest Battle Scenes of All time' (3rd May 2016)
'Mysterious Object at Noon (2000): The Most Groundbreaking and Innovative Director of the 21st Century' (25th April 2016)
'Grey Gardens (1975): The Maysles Brothers' Forgotten Masterpiece Returns' (17th April 2016)
'Back to God's Country (1953): Refreshingly Straightforward Arctic Western' (15th April 2016)
'Bad Sister (1931): A Minor Film with a Major Claim to Fame' (12th April 2016)
'Couple in a Hole (2015): Satisfying Small Drama from Debuting Belgian Director' (8th April 2016)
'The Sound Barrier (1952): David Lean, The Showman With Substance?' (5th April 2016)
'Ken Russell: The Great Passions' (29th March 2016)
'Sheba, Baby (1975): Blaxploitation, PG Style' (21st March 2016)
'Shooting Stars (1928): Unapologetically British Silent Film Glamour' (21st March 2016)
'Something Different/A Bagful of Fleas (1962-3): Breezy, Charming and Fiercely Political' (2nd March 2016)
'Fixed Bayonets! (1951): Gleefully Old-Fashioned Korean War Pulp Poetry' (14th February 2016)
'Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959): Rarely Been Bettered in the 57 Years Since' (13th January 2016)

'Aferim! (2015): Django Unchained Being Played Over Images From Meek's Cutoff' (14th December 2015)
'By Our Selves (2015): An Andrew Kötting Appreciation' (30th November 2015)
'All My Good Countrymen (1968): Even a Dictatorship Can't Keep a Lid on This' (22nd November 2015)
'The Fireman's Ball (1967): A Good Fun Satire on Totalitarianism?' (10th November 2015)
'Black Girl and Borom Sarret (1963): Say Hello to the Master of African Cinema' (19th October 2015)
'Zardoz (1974): Much More Than James Bond in a Red Nappy' (12th October 2015)
'3 Women (1977): Stealthing its Way into Altman's Canon of Classics' (30th September 2015)
'Hard to be a God (2015): A Difficult, Dirty, Violent Epic of a Swansong' (26th September 2015)
'Horse Money (2014): Difficult, Obtuse, But an Open Mind Will See You Through' (18th September 2015)
'Dragon's Return (1968): A Jaw-Dropping Masterpiece of the Slovak Style' (26th August 2015)
'How to Be Eccentric: The Essential Richard Massingham' (23rd August 2015)
'Man with a Movie Camera (1929): Newly Minted as the Greatest Documentary Ever Made' (18th August 2015)
'The Beast (1975): Boro's Eye-Wateringly Animalistic Beauty and the Beast' (9th August 2015)
'Immoral Tales (1973): Art, History and Sex Cinema in the Hands of Borowczyk' (27th July 2015)
'War and Peace (2002): Monumental War Documentary More Committed to Peace than Bloodshed' (24th July 2015)
'Blanche (1971): More Jacobean Tragedy Than Euro-Kink Nightmare' (19th July 2015)
'Goto, Isle of Love (1968): Boro Thriving on Artifice and Precision' (5th July 2015)
'Story of My Death (2013): A Dracula Film for the More Adventurous Moviegoer' (26th June 2015)
'Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation (1959-1987)' (21st June 2015)
'The Cruise, Camouflage and Shivers - Polish Cinema Vol. III' (25th May 2015)
'Fruit of Paradise (1970): Vera Chytilova, Free-Form and Unchained' (15th April 2015)
'Electricity (2014): Unforgettable Showcase of Aygness Deyn's Acting Talent' (6th April 2015)
'Traps (1998): Rape-Revenge Black Comedy as Channelled Through Czech Subversion' (16th March 2015)
'Pictures of the Old World (1972): Sorrowful, Funny and Bawdy Portrait of a People' (14th March 2015)
'The Turning (2015): Eclectic Aussie Shorts Based on the Work of Tim Winton', 24th February 2015)
'The Last of the Unjust (2013): Shoah Director Still Throws Up Genuine Moral Challenges', 22nd February 2015
'Kinetta (2005): Yorgos Lanthimos Before He Started Weirding the World Out', 3rd February 2015
'Little Lost Robot (Out of This World)', 21st January 2015