Se7en (1995) Director: David Fincher Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker Starring: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow When Se7en arrived in 1995 it quickly became a benchmark for modern crime thrillers and a defining film in David Fincher’s career. Combining a tightly controlled atmosphere, a stark visual palette, and a script focused on the … Read more
The Devil All the Time (2020) Director: Antonio Campos Screenwriters: Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Hayley Bennett, Kristin Griffith, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Mewling, Mia Wasikowska Antonio Campos’s film adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, The Devil All the Time, is a dark, slow-burning thriller set in the mid-20th-century American … Read more
JJ Abrams is the only director to have led both Star Trek and Star Wars feature films, and he has done so with notable commercial and critical impact. Over more than two decades he has shaped television hits such as Fringe, Lost and Person of Interest and produced films including Cloverfield, Infinitely Polar Bear and … Read more
This article was written exclusively for The Film Magazine by Martha Lane. Easy A (2010) Director: Will Gluck Screenwriter: Bert V. Royal Starring: Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes Easy A reimagines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic themes from The Scarlet Letter through the noisy, image-conscious world of an American … Read more
Christopher Nolan: Sound, Structure, and Emotional Depth Christopher Nolan’s early short Doodlebug (1997) already carries the hallmarks that would define his career: compact, claustrophobic spaces, existential unease, and a twist that unsettles chronological expectations. At three minutes it demands little character exposition, yet its visuals and idea-driven focus are precise. Across the next two … Read more
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) Director: McG Screenwriters: McG, Dan Lagana, Brad Morris, Jimmy Warden Starring: Judah Lewis, Emily Alyn Lind, Samara Weaving, Hana Mae Lee, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, Andrew Bachelor Netflix’s slate often swings between surprising gems and forgettable misfires. McG’s 2017 film The Babysitter landed on the positive side of that balance—a … Read more
Memories of Murder (2003) Director: Bong Joon-ho Screenwriters: Bong Joon-ho, Shim Sung-bo Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Ko Seo-hie, Park No-shik, Park Hae-il Memories of Murder stands as one of Bong Joon-ho’s most accomplished early works: a taut, darkly comic crime thriller rooted in a real-life investigation. Long before … Read more
*Spoilers Ahead Over the past months, the simple pleasure of settling into a dark auditorium with a tub of popcorn to experience a new blockbuster has felt distant. With cinemas in the UK reopening, audiences have been eager to return to the big screen. Yet, Christopher Nolan’s latest, Tenet, asks moviegoers to do more than … Read more
This review was originally published by its author Sam Sewell-Peterson on SSP Thinks Film. The Assistant (2019/20) Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Kitty Green Starring: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, John Orsini, Noah Robbins, Kristine Froseth, Mackenzie Leigh, Purva Bedi Kitty Green’s The Assistant is a quietly devastating study of the everyday mechanisms that enable abuse to … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced new inclusion standards on the evening of 8 September 2020 designed to encourage filmmakers worldwide to improve diversity and inclusion in hiring, casting and marketing. From this point forward, productions that want to be eligible for the prestigious Best Picture category at the Oscars will … Read more