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Dunkirk

To coincide with the release of Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan curated a season of films at the BFI which influenced his WWII carnival of trauma. "Our season explores the mechanics and uses of suspense to modulate an audience's response to narrative," Nolan explained, and while he might have sounded like some kind of emotion-curious automaton, that declaration of intent - alongside the films he

Legend

It's worth bearing in mind, as you settle in to watch Brian Helgeland's take on the story of the Kray twins, that it's called Legend. It's also worth bearing in mind one of Google's convenient definitions of the word 'legend': "a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated" Because a warts-and-all documentary about London's best-known villains this is not

Six films I'll be giving a shit about in

AAAAAAAAH! I'm hoping so hard that this is the first in a series of five films whose titles consist almost entirely of repeated vowels. (4th) ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Looks lovely, like Boursin risotto. (4th) LEGEND So Tom Hardy reckons he's as good as BOTH Kemp brothers, does he? Well we'll see about that. (9th) EVEREST The story of how a group of brave men

Mad Max: Fury Road

In a world where remakes, reboots and decades-late sequels are generally about as welcome as the insertion of a serrated kitchen implement into one's genitals, it's a blessed relief to see a "classic" updated that genuinely warrants it. Start sharpening your serrated kitchen implements if you disagree with me, but frankly the original Mad Max films are quite remarkably balls for such a