
John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with a bold statement – a match cut that is a direct homage to David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. This is an incredibly massive mission statement, and not every film can easily get away with a reference to one of cinema’s undisputed classics, but Chad Stahelski, somehow, gets away with…

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……
Film Editor Ben looks at Eli Roth’s return to the director’s chair.