Normal Review: Bob Odenkirk Stars in Another Stale “Nobody” Tale
Bob Odenkirk stars in another stale Nobody -type action tale.
Ben Wheatley
Cillian Murphy’s 10 Best Movie Roles
With Cillian Murphy about to detonate (sorry) the big screen in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer , take a look back at the Irish actor's best movie roles.
Sundance 2021: In The Earth Review
Ben Wheatley makes the most out of his minimalist thriller filmed during the pandemic.
Rebecca Review: Haunted By Hitchcock
Mrs. de Winter can't escape the ghost of Rebecca and audiences won't be able to escape the ghost of Hitchcock.
Best of the Decade: Phil Brown’s Top 10 Missing Movies
Did we miss anything? Here are 10 films of the 2010s that our friend Phil Brown couldn't in good conscience allow to be left behind from That Shelf's retrospective.
Our 100 Favourite Movies of the Decade: 2013
What are some of our favourite movies of 2013? We've cleared off some space on That Shelf for our 100 favourite movies of the decade. Here's our 2013 picks!
TIFF 2016: Free Fire Review
Free Fire TIFF 2016 Review.
High-Rise Review
A self-contained, ultra-modern apartment building slowly descends into complete anarchy in High-Rise , an utterly bonkers adaptation that's certainly not for everyone, but is it for anyone?
TIFF 2015: High-Rise Review
High-Rise TIFF 2015 review
A Field in England Review
There’s absolutely no way that Ben Wheatley’s latest film A Field in England could ever be defined. It’s one of only a small handful of films that can adequately cover possibly every genre in film history and still find a way to dwell on the more bizarre genres.
Interview: Ben Wheatley
We talk to British director Ben Wheatlely: the man behind Kill List , Sightseers , and this weekend's A Field in England (Oh, and a couple of upcoming Doctor Who episodes) about how he never makes the same film twice, his film’s sense of language, how he directs actors, working with his writer as a co-editor, and his thoughts on his own special kind of genre filmmaking.
TIFF 2013: A Field in England Review
A Field in England Wavelengths Director: Ben Wheatley The field in question of Ben Wheatley’s new film is quintessentially English: all chilled vegetation and smoky mist. In other words, it’s plenty bleak and disquieting without the aid of digital monochrome and arrhythmic editing. But it certainly helps, and A Field in England plays its spare […]
Interview: ReFocus Series Founder Jeff Wright
We talk to ReFocus Film series founder Jeff Wright - who screens the coal black comedy See You Next Tuesday at 9pm on Thursday, August 29th for free with a director and star Q&A at Toronto's Revue Cinema - to talk about he formation of the series, his booking process, his amazement at how series alums have seen their careers take off in recent years, why the series is free, the film that got away from him, and, of course, his most recent selection.
Sightseers Review
Dark, strange, and deeply hilarious, Ben Wheatley's Sightseers helps to solidify the director as one of the most intriguing talents from the UK and the world today.
TIFF 2012 Reviews; Part 9
For our final round-up of TIFF 2012 reviews we take a look at some great stuff yet to come and some films we're doubling back on with reviews for The Paperboy , Song for Marion , Frances Ha , Room 237 , The ABCs of Death , Ghost Graduation , The We and the I , Imogene , Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp , Outrage Beyond , Come Out and Play , The Lesser Blessed , and The Bay .
