By Cat Searcey
In his stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic caper, Wes Anderson highlights the necessity of overcoming a fear of change.
By Tyler Thier
This Halloween, no body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.
By Riley Rogers
A decade after its release, David Fincher's thrilling adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel about a woman scorned retains its unnerving power.
As Prince's groundbreaking feature debut turns 40, its daring attitude towards gender and sexuality still feels revolutionary.
By Fran Bowden
Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the disenfranchisement of young people and sensationalisation of shoplifting.
Twenty five years on from its release, the rave culture of Justin Kerrigan's ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
By Nadira Begum
25 years ago, Gil Junger's spiky teen romance reinvented The Taming of the Shrew – and made Shakespeare cool again.
By Kevin Bui
The voice actor brought his life experience to the role of the Caped Crusader, and in the process gave us a batman for the ages.
By Cian Tsang
By combining his signature absurdist style and sincerity with the beautiful game, Stephen Chow created an exhilarating and unconventional sports movie that captures the highs and laws of football.
By Xuanlin Tham
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Tsui Hark's take on a Chinese folktale is a breathtaking allegory for our inhospitable world.
Two decades after its release, Guy Maddin's eccentric Prohibition era satire speaks to a contemporary obsession with corporatising pain.
More than three decades after it was made, this landmark work defies classification – a portrait of young people caught between warring countries, attempting to have a typical childhood.
Two decades on, Michael Bay's nihilistic, hyper-violent police drama serves as a state of the union address.
By Greg Cwik
Fifty years since William Friedkin unleashed a demon at the multiplex, the impressive performances of Max von Sydow and Jason Miller are as haunting as ever.
By Raine Petrie
As an anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' landmark concert film hits cinemas, it remains a landmark in autistic representation on screen.
By Sarah Cleary
Stars including Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson appeared on Dick Cavett's seminal American talk show – a reminder that the televised interview is something of a lost art.
By Sam Moore
Twenty-five years on, Steven Spielberg's World War Two epic completely revolutionised the way Hollywood thought about depicting conflict on screen.