Kristen Stewart attempts to contact the spirit of her deceased twin brother in French director Olivier Assayas’ haunting rumination on grief, glamour and the male gaze, Personal Shopper.   By Nick […]

White robes. Ritualistic daggers. Scattered and mutilated corpses. Ungodly surgical procedures. Creeping dread. A slow descent into hell. No, I’m not describing Australia’s public healthcare system – but rather the bloody […]

With the news this week that a Stockholm firm are implanting their staff with a microchip that will let them through locked office doors and use printers, it seems that […]

The 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast held pride of place amongst my childhood VHS collection, and was on high rotation alongside Aladdin and Fantasia during those halcyon […]

The critical and financial divide between Hollywood blockbusters and small budget dramas widened further in 2016, with Manchester by the Sea (made for $8.5m) and Moonlight (only $5m) the two front […]

HIDDEN FIGURES Director: Theodore Melfi Rating: 3/5 When Hollywood’s not unashamedly rehashing the ideas of old, it’s desperately seeking forgotten tales from history – small but important stories that never […]

Seek and you shall find: the top 20 films of 2016 It’s easy to lament the decline of mainstream cinema, which this year descended further into predictable franchise fodder. Big budgets […]