Film

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

A badass sociopath schools a taxi driver in the art of assertiveness. But there can only be one boss …

John Wick may have had a dog, but Bullet Train is the over-exuberant puppy

How The Omen uses inversions to unsettle us – and why that makes for effective horror

Films that use metaphors of sun and simmering excess to tell stories of extremes

The significance of strong women and skimpy underwear in 2020 sci-fi horror Underwater

The Lost World establishes Ian Malcolm as a flawed father – and gives him a dinosaur double