Never meet your heroes: Why The Disaster Artist is a disaster for The Room
Could James Franco humanising Tommy Wiseau via The Disaster Artist movie ruin enjoyment of The Room?
12 Years a Slave, and the problem with penance porn
We ask whether Steve McQueen's film would've worked better as a document of Solomon Northup's life after slavery.
Why Hollywood can’t tackle the recession
As The Wolf of Wall Street hits UK screens, is "financial cowardice" the reason Hollywood can't totally engage with…
Same old boy: Why Spike Lee’s Oldboy sucked
By ignoring cultural differences and failing to learn from remakes like The Departed, Spike Lee's Oldboy is an…
Luc Besson: a premature obituary
Following the release of the abysmal The Family, we felt it was time to say goodbye to our respect for Luc Besson.…
Can Lars von Trier be trusted to explore female sexuality on film?
In the age of slut-shaming, can 'misogynist' Lars von Trier be trusted to explore the issue of female sexuality in…
The movie star is dead: What Bad Grandpa besting The Counsellor means for cinema
The audience knows what it wants. And right now, what it wants is much-loved characters - like The Hulk and…
Body fascism and the adaptation: why Hollywood will never give us an ugly lead
They may be ugly on the inside, but it seems we'll never get a lead who is ugly on the outside too.
Understanding our love of the apocalypse
As How I Live Now opens in the UK, we wonder if products of the apocalypse genre act as catharsis for a crumbling…
Hollywood could learn from Orange Is The New Black’s success
Privileged, white male executives need to realise that it's not all about men.
‘Bad’ cinema lost its cult appeal when the big studios started making…
The Fast and Furious and Transformers franchises belong on the small screen along with Sharknado.
Why is cinema obsessed with Cormac McCarthy?
The Counsellor is novelist Cormac McCarthy's first feature script, but his influence on American film has been…