Film

Film theories: cinema techniques, how to ‘read’ movies, and what makes them work.

The silhouette of a cross can just be made out against a scarlet coloured background.

Sex and sanguination: decoding Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Making sense of the sizzling sexuality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Movie still: Paul Mescal stands by a harbour at twilight and lights a cigarette.

God’s Creatures: comfort and claustrophobia | Review

Lies come easy in God’s Creatures. Consequences fall harder

The roof of a run-down, dilapidated wooden house peeks above the tall grass of a meadow.

As Bestas (The Beasts): beneath our human skin | Review

Taut, true-life tale The Beasts shatters the myth of rural idylls and easy living

Close-up among a flock of startled birds, mid-flight

My Name is Alfred Hitchcock | Review

Evocative and intimate, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock pulls back the curtain on the notorious director

Part of a photographic film reel showing a dimly lit underground room, like a garage.

Fight Club (1999) explained: vandals with dirty faces

Making sense of Fight Club’s twisted narrative and duplicated identities

Knock at the Cabin: apocalypse … now? | Review

A family face up to the prospect of Armageddon – but should they believe everything they hear?