Psychosexual drama is an intoxicating mix of sex, violence, and masculinity
Author: David G. Hughes
David G. Hughes is the Northern-born, London-based Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Electric Ghost Magazine. He graduated in Film Studies (BA) from King's College London and Film Aesthetics (Mst) from The University of Oxford. He has written for Film International, Little White Lies, and more.
Thomas Vinterberg crafts a fun if surprisingly anodyne movie that celebrates moderation.
Russell Crowe excels in a delightfully unambitious pulp thriller
Tom Hanks plays with battleships in a taut and impressionistic passion project
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THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET
First-rate Austrian drama is a damning diagnosis of the neurosis at the heart of contemporary society
“The Birds shows the grim reality—human helplessness in the face of nature and fate”
Polished British gangster flick hits with surprising emotional depth
A western that speaks to our current culture wars torn between the charismatic, problematic past and the ambitious, revisionist present
Joyfully bombastic but soulless corporate entertainment that extracts from other films
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PLANET OF THE HUMANS
Documentary exposes the hypocrisy and fallacy at the heart of the Green Movement, but isn’t quite bold enough