The Stuff That Films Are Made Of: Ramblings of a Cinephile

A Most Violent Year  is an inverse-gangster movie, a typical 1960s-1980s-set New York American Dream tale, full of loud clothes, louder gun...

A Californian private eye is visited by a young woman, who tells a mysterious story of deception and intrigue and thus sets into motion a t...

Whiplash  is a psychological drama from Damien Chazelle, telling the story of an ambitious young jazz drummer and his intense teacher.  ...

Foxcatcher opens with old black-and-white footage of a fox hunt from some forgotten corner of history. A class of men and women who have l...

These days, when someone talks about Goths you may think of this: Well before these long-haired layabouts were moaning and wailing, how...

Film Noir is one of those terms that everyone recognises but is often misunderstand. Most call it a genre, some call it a mood, others cal...

The opening credits appear with grating sluggishness, words filling in one letter at a time to the staccato smashes of a jazz drum beat. Th...