Call Me By Your Name

The third film in director Luca Guadagnino’s Desire Trilogy, Call Me By Your Name (adapted from the Andre Aciman novel of the same name) explores the relationship between Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), the precocious son of an anthropology professor living in Northern Italy, and Oliver (Armie Hammer) a graduate student spending the summer with the...

Wind River

In the past two years Taylor Sheridan has risen from TV actor, best known for his supporting role on Sons of Anarchy, to one of the most in-demand and prolific screenwriters in Hollywood, having penned the scripts to 2015’s Sicario and last year’s excellent Hell or High Water. Both Sicario and Hell… turned conventional genre tropes...

Kingsman – The Golden Circle

2015’s sleeper hit Kingsman: The Secret Service introduced the cinema-goers to the weird and wonderful world of Mark Millar’s acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. Not only was The Secret Service a welcome relief from the increasingly dour post-Bourne spy genre, but a genuinely funny and charming film in its own right. Director Matthew...

Logan Lucky

In 2013, hyper-prolific writer/director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Oceans Eleven) announced his plans to retire from feature filmmaking, citing his dissatisfaction with the film industry and Hollywood studio machine as the reason for his untimely exit. During his ‘retirement’ (which was quickly downgraded to ‘sabbatical’) Soderbergh directed every episode of turn-of-the-century medical drama The Knick before...

Baby Driver

When a director describes their newest film as a ‘passion project’, a few things come to mind; a slow-burning, thought-provoking and deeply personal piece that the creator has worked toward for their entire career, often taking on projects that do not satisfy them artistically, just to craft their masterpiece. Think Spielberg’s harrowing Schindler’s List, Martin...