Jeremy Renner

Practically one year ago, Avengers: Infinity War set an almost unattainable level of expectation. Featuring one of the largest ensemble casts ever, the Russo Brothers' ambitious project became the first ever superhero film to gross more…

Think Clint Eastwood, but one that would be safe to hug.

Dennis Villeneuve may well be my favourite director working today, and I can't believe that it took my viewing of Arrival to hammer that home to me. Although I have only seen his past couple of movies, both have been smart and hugely…

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…

With great power comes great responsibility, and in this onscreen world of heroes and villains, the Russo Brothers are true beacons of hope. While the second sequence in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe was, predominately, a disjointed…

Four years ago, geek 'hero' Joss Whedon directed and wrote Marvel Avengers Assemble, the culmination of various stand-alone films and a feature that caused much anticipation among comic-book fans, old and new, around the world. His efforts…

David O. Russell is a very good director, and a very good writer. So it's a shame to watch American Hustle and get the impression that he's not happy with himself. This is, of course, just awfully presumptuous of me, but I couldn't help…

David O. Russell's patchy Abscam comedy satirises the Seventies  American Hustle: the title promises a classic, definitive statement of the nation's most typical forms of duplicity. The movie interweaves FBI entrapment of corrupt…