Out of darkness

Despite its stone age setting and modern ‘girl boss’ main characters, Out of Darkness is better than it has any right to be.

The Wicker Man at 50

The Wicker Man remains one of the best and most influential British horror films. If you’ve never seen it, go and watch it. If you’ve already seen it, then go watch it again. Warning this appreciation contains spoilers!

Adieu Jean-Luc Godard

The passing of Jean-Luc Godard at the venerable age of 91 leaves the world without one of its most important and influential film makers.

A film to remember

While James Cameron’s bloated, sentimentalised “Titanic” broke box office records, Roy Ward Baker’s sober and dignified “A Night to Remember” remains a much better film.

Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods”

Spike Lee’s new film film tells a vivid tale of African American life from the battlefields of Vietnam to a return to a civilian world ungrateful for their wartime service.

Boo! Did I scare you?

Horror films are enjoying a resurgence at the box office, so today, on the spookiest day of the year, Andrew Ng explores why we enjoy being scared so much.

Why the lost girls of ‘Hanging Rock’ still haunt us

As the new TV adaption of ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ premieres, the story still draws us in with enduring themes of female empowerment, lost children and the deep mystery of Australia’s brutal landscape.