Letterboxd — Your life in film

Edmund O'Brien's Frank Bigelow dashes through Market Street, San Francisco as if he were attempting to outrun death. He bumps into surprised people on the street — not actors, for Rudolph Maté and Ernest Lazlo stole that footage without the required city permits in a guerrilla style that puts French New Wave directors using similar tactics to shame because of the obvious technical accomplishment behind the camera. The location photography, the Noir lighting (both interior and exterior), and the general…

Almost had me wishing Ryan Murphy was behind this instead of Ridley Scott, something I thought I'd never say. Enjoyed this immensely for the most part, and will never forget a cinema full of people gasping in outrage at the thought of a Bloomingdale's gift card as a Christmas present, but it could have done with another serious round of editing and should have gone full-ham-camp.

For me, this just didn't sufficiently follow through on the camp it promises. This…

Heart-breaking, and absolutely infuriating how much people relied on the public's misogyny and classism to obliterate this woman. This documentary gives a great overview of Spears' career. In recent years, with her being treated as a walking punchline, it's easy to forget how huge she was, how she was the most-Googled person for years running.

I hope this doc will cause the internet to wake up to the fact that Britney was misremembered, just like Tonya Harding, Anna Nicole Smith…

Watched Josephine Decker's film about troubled horror writer Shirley Jackson twice, back to back, but ended up admiring it more than I liked it. Elisabeth Moss gives another terrific performance (right up there with Her Smell and Queen Of Earth), individual scenes are genuinely powerful (Shirley's extraordinary meltdown at a university faculty party is a highlight), and it casts an atmospheric spell that proves tricky to shake. However, the whole thing felt a bit overegged, so full of symbolism and…

Jesse Eisenberg’s meek inherits the Earth; and, because this is a big budget Hollywood goof, so does Woody Harrelson’s unstoppable, twinkie-obsessed zombie killing machine. The zombies are comic props, dispatched in various over-the-top ways, and the post-apocalypse is Disneyland for the survivors. What keeps the cartoon interesting over ninety minutes are the charisma and chemistry between the gang-of-four in the lead and the witty, self-aware script by the same team who wrote Deadpool, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Eisenberg’s voiceover…