By Anton Bitel
The director’s 2002 drama about life on a London housing estate is a film of bleak moments and occasional hope.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian director’s 1975 giallo classic is being re-released in a newly restored, longer edit with additional scenes.
By Anton Bitel
Toshiaki Toyoda’s Monsters Club sees a Unabomber-like character wage a private war from a remote cabin in the woods.
By Anton Bitel
Marco Ferreri’s controversial The Ape Woman is a deeply cynical portrayal of masculinity bestialised and femininity reified.
By Anton Bitel
With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
By Anton Bitel
In 1983’s Suburbia and 1985’s The Boys Next Door, the Reagan era is a place of lay-offs, layabouts and general decay.
By Adam Scovell
Inspired by real-life killings, 1968’s Corruption is one of the first – and most effective – British horror films of its kind.
By Anton Bitel
Yasuzô Masumura’s macabre masterpiece Blind Beast paints an unnerving portrait of an artist and his muse.
By Anton Bitel
John Frankenheimer’s Prophecy sees Mother Nature exact revenge against a researcher couple in rural Maine.
By Anton Bitel
Starring Linda Blair as a textbook final girl, Tom DeSimone’s 1981 Hell Night offers an effective blend of horrors old and new.
By Adam Scovell
The Italian horror maestro’s handful of entries in the genre showcase his penchant for bloody retribution.
By Anton Bitel
With its movie nerd hero, doting blonde heroine and shocking violence, this early ’90s cult classic is peak Tarantino.
By Anton Bitel
Tezuka’s Barbara is a meta ode to the director’s late father, the ‘godfather’ of the Japanese graphic novel.
By Anton Bitel
Paul Verhoeven’s subversive 1992 film is a Hitchcockian thriller with the kink brought to the surface.
By Anton Bitel
The angst-ridden Over the Edge from 1979 was a major influence on Richard Linklater and Kurt Cobain.
By Anton Bitel
Yasuzô Masumura’s Giants and Toys from 1958, about rival confectionary companies, shows a nation in flux.
By Anton Bitel
Jordan Downey’s fantasy revenge horror The Head Hunter pays homage to Sami Raimi’s Evil Dead series.
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