When a sequel to Blade Runner was announced some 30-odd years after the original, the feelings conjured were akin to those of a pisshead ordering a 4am kebab. On one hand, there was an unfathomable amount of excitement because of that one…
With Ridley Scott's recent Alien:Covenant dividing opinion since before it's release, it's safe to safe there was an almost audible sigh of relief when the positive early responses to Blade Runner 2049's surfaced online. With Denis…
When most people think of alien films, it feels like the default genre is sci-fi action, where the action hero fight against the extraterrestrial species before they take over the Earth. But thanks to a short story by Ted Chiang and Sicario…
Britain might have fallen out of love with experts, as Michael Gove so eloquently explained this year, but for Hollywood they’ve lost none of their shine. When bad things happen it’s straight off to academia to find someone to fix it.…
October marks the return of the BFI London Film Festival, which highlights the year’s most anticipated films in venues across the city, including a 780-seat pop-up cinema in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Celebrating its 60th year, the…
Villeneuve gets down to basics, retaining moral complexity
Sicario is Denis Villeneuve's most concentrated, compact film. It's about a US operation, unfolding over only a few days, to follow a US-based Mexican drug "jefe" back to his…
Even before the production credits fade, a drumbeat rises. Out in the desert, FBI agents close in on a small house. Light filtering through raised windows in their armoured van, Emily Blunt leads her team on a smash and grab raid straight…