One of the last big sci-fi pictures before 2001: A Space Odyssey came along and fundamentally changed the possibilities of the genre, 1966’s Fantastic Voyage is the platonic ideal of a movie that gets praised, sincerely, for its visual effects, by someone whose tone of voice and inability to maintain eye contact make it clear […]

Two terrific versions of the highly melodramatic story A Star Is Born – three if you count the original 1932 What Price Hollywood? (as you absolutely should), the same material in all but name – was perhaps already pushing it, but least the 1976 incarnation of the story tries to freshen the material by changing […]

Just like that other Anderson from the United States, there’s not point in denying that Roy Andersson tends to make films that resemble each other, and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, his Leone d’Oro winner from the 2014 Venice Film Festival, does pretty much exactly the same things as 2000’s Songs […]