FILM REVIEWS AND NEWS

Just like with Steven Spielberg, I have a different answer for what I consider Christopher Nolan's best film and what my favourite film of Nolan's is. To me, Oppenheimer is Nolan’s magnum opus and the film that won him Best Director and Best Picture at the Oscars for the first time. Oppenheimer showed that Nolan could create a 3-hour talky biopic about the creation and aftermath of the atomic bomb and make it an intense and enthralling masterpiece.

Trying to choose the best Steven Spielberg film is nearly an impossible task. The great man himself has changed the cinematic landscape on multiple occasions creating classic after classic. From creating the modern-day Summer blockbuster with Jaws, to reinventing the sci-fi genre with Close Encounters of the Third Kind to revolutionising CGI and animatronics with Jurassic Park, Spielberg has a fair few films to pick from.

Exciting news for horror fans everywhere! If you love Eurotrash, classic exploitation genre-films and a general ora of the bizarre, there’s a chance that you already love cinema’s greatest freak, Jesús (Jess) Franco: the controversial Spanish horror legend who produced almost (though perhaps over) 200 feature-length films in his career.

Sam Raimi currently has a new film out in cinemas! What better time than now to deconstruct his career; most celebrated for, but not limited to, his genre-defining works of horror. You can view the following as both a ranking of, and a semi-comprehensive guide to, the incomparable work of one of Hollywood’s most influential genre-filmmakers.

In the ever-expanding universe of the UK Film Review Podcast, we are constantly seeking out the voices that define modern cinema. This particularly insightful instalment of "The Films Of", presented by my esteemed colleagues Callum Ewing and James Leroyd, marks a significant milestone for the show as they pivot from dissecting directorial oeuvres to examining their first-ever actor: the indomitable Margot Robbie.