Instantly recognisable to anyone who grew up in the days when terrestrial TV channels still padded out their schedule with classic black and white films, Trevor Howard is one of the great
Patricia Highsmith may not have invented the psychological thriller but her novels and short stories have gone a long way towards defining it. Highsmith’s first novel became Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a
Pedro Almodovar is, without a question, one of the great European film directors. A Product of Franco’s Spain, Almodovar began his career in the early 1970s as a pioneer of countercultural theatre
If people actually cared about the youth culture of the 1990s then directors like Larry Clark and Gregg Araki would be household names. Instead, they are cruelly under-rated figures whose greatest works
While there are many accounts of what happened to the revolutionary fervour of the 1960s, few are as memorable as the one delivered by Johnny Depp in Fear And Loathing In Las
In The Fog just narrowly avoids being a very good film indeed. Based on a short story by one of the greats of Belarusian literature, the film opens with a group of
Mathieu Kassovitz first came to the world’s attention in 1995 when his second feature film La Haine captured the public mood and laid bare the tension and mistrust between impoverished urban youth
It is a testament to the talent and vision of François Ozon that he remains one of the most underappreciated directors in contemporary French cinema. Indeed, while some people work incredibly hard
Back in 1994, Nikita Mikhalkov co-wrote, co-produced, directed and starred in a film entitled Burnt by the Sun. Set immediately prior to World War II, the film told of a vicious love
Recent years have seen a number of lawsuits and investigations into the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests. While these investigations may have been quite small to begin with, the