Category: Film
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Review: Nightmare Alley
Is Guillermo Del Toro’s latest a cinematic dream? Callum Nelmes thinks so.
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COLLAB: Our Favourite Halloween Films
Halloween is a compulsive part of the cinematic calendar, yielding horror icons, jump scares and creepy music every October. Three Edge writers offer their favourite picks to embrace the spooky season. Coraline (2009) I suppose this film did its job as a creepy children’s tale because when I first saw it as a child it scared […]
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Review: The Power of the Dog – One of the Year’s Best
The closing shot of The Searchers is the most famous and influential shot in the Western genre, as John Wayne is framed to perpetual loneliness by the rectangle of a door frame. The Power of the Dog updates the shot very early on into a triptych one: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Phil Burbank prowls between the frame […]
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Review: The Matrix Resurrections – Visually Fantastic but Far From Perfect
2021 seems to have been a year of skepticism towards blockbusters: there was the Spielberg remake of West Side Story, at first a controversial decision that saw film fans divided until the film released to surprisingly intense acclaim; there was Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film so abundantly hyped up that disappointment seemed almost inevitable… […]
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Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home – Fan Service, but Strangely Paced
Given the current troubles facing cinema, perhaps film fans should be thankful that something as industrial as Marvel (and/or Disney) are around to give it a kiss of life with the long-awaited conclusion to Tom Holland’s MCU trilogy. After No Time to Die performed well, there seemed to be a general assumption that cinema would be […]
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Review: The Harder They Fall
One of the great lies of Hollywood is that the Old West was white. The Western genre dates to the inception of filmmaking and its gilded era in the 1950s and 1960s saw productions in that genre churned out at such a rate as to make Marvel blush. Of course, seemingly every single one of […]
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Review: King Richard
Venus and Serena Williams have a barnstorming 122 singles titles between them. Their careers are widely regarded among the greatest of all tennis players and athletes, period. This iconic household rivalry is traced in the sports-biopic King Richard through the lens of their father, Richard Williams, who passionately and controversially drove the girls to the […]
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Review: West Side Story (2021)
Steven Spielberg returns with a musical remake – but does it hit the high notes?
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COLLAB: Our Favourite Christmas Films
Along with roast turkey and sprouts, putting out carrots for reindeers and pretending you’re pleased with what your great-aunt has got you, sitting around a TV with your family watching a beloved Christmas film with hot chocolates or mulled wine is a vital part of every holiday season. Here are some of our writers’ favourite […]
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In Defence of: Christmas Films
Susanna Robertson-Sheath defends the seasonal joy of Christmas films.
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In Defence of: The Amazing Spider-man 2
Ahead of No Way Home, Harry Geeves dusts the cobwebs off TASM 2 and finds some positives.
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Hidden Classics: Contact (1997)
In a new series, Harry Geeves shines a light on a great film that feels overlooked for its genre, Contact.
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Review: tick, tick… BOOM! – A Definitive Adaptation
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut is “inventively structured” according to Harry Geeves.
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Post-Mortem: The Last Duel- It Deserved Better
October proved an immensely successful month for cinema: No Time to Die climbed into the UK’s all-time top five grossing films, Venom 2 breezed through to a pandemic best opening weekend, Dune secured a sequel and in China The Battle at Lake Changjin made an eyewatering $858 million alone (at the time of writing). It was a month of relief to […]