Historical epics, Hong Kong action flicks, quirky love stories, a white-picket-fence nightmare courtesy of David Lynch and lots of noir. As 2025 draws to a close, these are my favourite cinematic discoveries of the year.
My Favourite Discoveries of 2023
Happy New Year! As we settle into 2024, here are my favourite film discoveries of the previous year. Sneakers (1992) Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is a criminal for hire with a twist: law-abiding companies hire him to expose the chinks in their armour. When he and his crew grow suspicious about their latest assignment, they […]
Street Fighter: ‘The Way of the Dragon’ (1972)
In The Way of the Dragon, Bruce Lee fights in an alley behind a restaurant, in the restaurant itself, on a rooftop, in a park and at a World Heritage Site. The film exists so that we might have the pleasure of watching its hero dispatch thugs in increasingly imaginative ways. When the hero is […]