From Sean Baker to Frances Ford Coppola, 2024 was full of filmmakers determined to take big swings creatively and politically.

Shane Meadows’ Dead Man’s Shoes remains one of the few British genre films to pack a distinctive cinematic punch — so why can its influence be seen almost nowhere?

The last great scene in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is also its most culturally significant — and its legacy can be seen in the new film Reality.

Among the many insane, deranged, inflammatory and down-right wrong-headed critiques of David Fincher’s Fight Club, both then and now, perhaps the rawest and most scathing came from Fincher contemporary Paul Thomas Anderson…

Jamie Lee Curtis’s recent Oscar victory shout-out to the genre fans who’ve supported her over the years was a reminder that great work is being done all the time in movies that rarely register on the radars of awards voters…

I’m not overly invested in the machinations of the various Marvel and DC cinematic universes. I have my favourites, sure, but do I care if each studio’s respective movies perfectly sync up to form a cohesive whole ten years from now? I do not…

Steven Soderbergh’s always had a love affair with British culture. It’s also at the heart of his best film…

When he’s not doling out cinematic punishment in the form of gonzo biblical tales like Noah and Mother!, Darren Aronofksy occupies what I like to think of as a cinematic discomfort zone full of characters who manifest their pain and sadness in the body blows they deal themselves…

When it comes to films about filmmaking The Fabelmans makes it clear why Steven Spielberg is Steven Spielberg and not some hack trying to demonstrate his love of movies with another redux version of Cinema Paradiso…

I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the Oscars. I don’t really care about them, but I don’t not care about them either…

Backtrack to October 2001 and I’m sitting in a Manhattan cinema watching Martin Scorsese introduce the first ever publicly screened footage from his dream project Gangs of New York. The movie has just been delayed on account of 9/11, but Scorsese is telling a story about the day George Lucas visited the set…