Category: Archive & Comment


  • Film Debut: Rian Johnson (Brick, 2005)

    Brick is is one of the most unique and stylish indie movies of the last ten years, says Ben Robins.

  • Film Debut: Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, 1999)

    Coppola quite often slips into pretentious filmmaking with little substance. But at other times, she manages to craft spectacular bourgeois examinations with hypnotising visuals.

  • Marvel and Tokenism: a female Thor is not enough

    The Editor, Rebecca James, comments on Marvel’s female superhero latest announcement.

  • Archive: Zodiac (2007)

    Zodiac encompasses all of Fincher’s thematic interests and showcases his signature style in a story that is surprisingly personal for the director, says Harrison Abbott.

  • Archive: An Education (2009)

    With Mulligan’s masterful portrayal of Jenny performed with such vigour, An Education is a piece of film that is so authentic and a display of life with such art.

  • Archive: Stoker (2013)

    Released last year, Stoker is a vivid and masterful piece of filmmaking which fearlessly and poetically explores sexuality and familial structures.

  • Film Debut: Christopher Nolan (Following, 1998)

    Follow the next installment of the Film Debut series with Christopher Nolan’s 1998 film analysed by Harrison Abbott.

  • Film Debut: David Fincher (Alien³,1992)

    David Fincher’s first film was notoriously plagued by production problems and studio interference, but the director still managed to bring his atmospheric style to the finished studio version.

  • Film Debut: Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother, 2009)

    Xavier Dolan’s first film works as a real exorcism of teenage hatred, whilst embodying the blooming of the director’s cinematographic poetry.

  • The Edge Live-Blogs the Movies #7: Nymphomaniac, vol. I & II (2013) by Lars von Trier

    The Edge Live-Blogs The Movies is back, better than ever, ready to join Lars von Trier’s latest controversy.

  • Film Debut: Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, 1993)

    The film may pale slightly in comparison to the director’s best work, however there is no shortage of ideas, originality or style on display, says Harrison Abbott.

  • Film Debut: Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, 1992)

    Luhrmann’s has kept his initial recherché filmmaking recognisable, but matured it to a level that collides all parts of filmmaking to one effective united text.

  • The Edge Live-Blogs The Movies #6: The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick

    The Edge Live-Blogs the Movies returns with Terrence Malick’s 2011 epic The Tree of Life.

  • Bad adaptations; they did WHAT to my favourite book?!

    Six of our writers pick what they think are some of the worst ever book-to-film adaptions.