Four Frames: Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
(Warning: This article contains plot spoilers) M. Night Shyamalan has undergone an identity crisis. The writer, director, and bit-part ‘actor’…
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Four Frames: John Wayne (1907 to 1979)
Mark Cousins, Northern Ireland’s acclaimed documentary filmmaker, said one of the things that first helped him realise there was more…
Screengem: Maureen’s Mobile Phone in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Nothing can distract from the audience’s cinema experience more than a mobile phone. But in his exquisitely enigmatic, always intelligent…
Four Frames: Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Music, like dreams, can linger in your head in bits and pieces. A snatch of a driving riff from here,…
Four Frames: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
Proverbs 3:31: “Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.” To die for a righteous cause is…
New Releases: Manchester by the Sea
The always watchable Casey Affleck has already picked up a Golden Globe, with an Oscar likely to follow, for his…
Screengem: Frank’s Cut-and-Paste Collage in Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)
Premier US film-maker Michael Mann paints pictures on an epic scale and delivers major set-pieces without losing sight of the…
Four Frames: The Longest Yard (1974)
There’s something very 1960s and ‘70s about split screen. Brian De Palma loves it, but it’s been criminally underused of…
Screengem: The Suspended Water Drop in Blood Simple
“Drip, drip, drip, drip … I shouldn’t laugh but I know I’m a failure in your eyes …” So sing…
