At nearly three minutes in length, Jordan Belfort's (DiCaprio) narcotic-induced crawl to his car is committed, convincing and confident. What's more, it has all the time in the world. Although potentially a horrific ordeal on paper, there…

“It’s a projection of my life and what I’m thinking about. But my ego is in every character in every film that I’ve made. I’m the ballerina in Black Swan. I’m the wrestler in The Wrestler. I can see how people will especially make the…

How many Comedies are in your Top 10 movies list? Probably not many. Sure, there are your Shaun of the Dead's and your Holy Grails, but there's something about a Comedy that makes them a difficult sell over time: the laughs wane, the shocks…

Quentin Tarantino. Edgar Wright. Dan Bush. Spot the odd one out. Easy, right? Okay, so at the moment it might feel like a stretch, but the latter one may not be quite so odd or out in a year or so. Within the first two minutes of Dan Bush's…

Frightfest 2017 hosted the European Premiere of Royce Gorsuch's feature-length debut, the reality-altering Mindhack: #savetheworld.Or did it? It did. Lauded as a cross between Hackers and The Rules of Attraction (it's not), Mindhack finds…

Like a cloud of noxious Smilex gas, the news spread this week that an origin film for The Joker was in the works. Directed by The Hangover's Todd Phillips and produced by Martin Scorsese (yes, that one), the film will look past Jared Leto…

This week brought news of Daniel Craig's return as 007 for the as-yet-untitled 25th installment in the Bond franchise. Previously, in a display of unabated passion and enthusiasm for what is arguably the most iconic and sought after film…

"Press: Quit making problems where they don't exist. In this month's Esquire my diatribe on films I might have turned down in the past in place of whatever artistic path I wanted to be on at that time I take full responsibility for and was…

Director Ben Wheatley’s fifth feature arrived in a hail of bullets, 70’s sideburns and incendiary insults. Free Fire’s trailer teased us with a back-to-basics shoot ‘em up that took aim somewhere between Reservoir Dogs and Hard Boiled.   …

Aaaaw! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you! It's been 30 years since The Lost Boys first graced our screens and it's as if they haven't aged a day! And when you get to the big 3-0, you might be a little too long in the tooth for…