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  Tuesday 2 February, 2010

  Groundbreaking. Epic. Beautiful beyond all reason. Racist. Anti-American.

• A Bright Future

  Tuesday 19 January, 2010

  We present the Boar’s British Film Campaign preview for 2010

• Case Open

  Tuesday 19 January, 2010

  Hugh Langley finds a classic brilliantly rediscovered in Sherlock Holmes

• Was this it?

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  The last rape of Michael Jackson’s memory? Georgi Lavers finds this footage from his last ever tour lacking in many ways, but to his fans, a fitting epitaph to the King of Pop

• Paranormal activity

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  Shot on a camcorder for $15,000 and hyped to high heaven, it smacks of a Blair Witch rip off, but Paranormal Activity turns out to be satisfyingly terrifying

• The Army of Crime

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  The truth of their Occupation during World War Two has always been, and remains, a …

• Where The Wild Things Are

  Monday 23 November, 2009

  Hugh Langley applauds Spike Jonze’s transformation of Maurice Sendak's ten line children's classic into an astounding film

• 2012

  Monday 23 November, 2009

  It is a somewhat difficult task reviewing 2012, for it is a film which does …

• Music steals the show

  Monday 23 November, 2009

  As the Temper Trap are propelled into fame for their song’s use in (500) days of Summer, Cameron Wauchope wonders whether a soundtrack can ever upstage a film

• Open space technology

  Monday 23 November, 2009

  While taking the quotidian as raw material is of course ubiquitous within British film, Emily Richardson’s evocative works transform the everyday into something mysterious which nevertheless resonates as profoundly true. Daniel Neofetou talks to her about influences and interpretations

• Hope, glory and celluloid success

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  As our indigenous cinema enjoys a spell of particularly rude health, Alex King looks at the state of the industry and argues the case for British Cinema

• Don’t you forget about him

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Stephen Leach looks at the legacy of the late, great John Hughes

• The return of Tony Jaa

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Back in 2003 Ong Bak burst onto our screens as an instant classic. It may …

• Secrets and lies

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Mike Leigh is the master of British Film's great tradition: social realism. Anyone fighting to …

• Hunger

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Nothing can prepare you for Hunger. Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen’s directorial debut is quite …

• Fish Tank

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank is remarkable in its unflinchingly gritty, yet often beautiful evocation of …

• And we’ve ‘Saw’ it all before…

  Tuesday 10 November, 2009

  Oh, Halloween. It’s that time of year again when kids dress scarily, teenagers dress scantily …

• Hollywood Dreaming

  Tuesday 13 October, 2009

  Darren Aronofsky's mezmerizing collection of films leave Alex King waiting with baited breath for his forthcoming Robocop 'reboot'.

• Antichrist

  Wednesday 7 October, 2009

  At fifty-three years old Lars Von Trier is not so much l’enfant any longer, but he’s certainly still terrible, to which the furore accompanying Antichrist attests.

• Anger, fear and desire

  Monday 22 June, 2009

  Nicola Davidson sings the praises of octogenarian provocateur par excellence Kenneth Anger in our last director profile of the academic year.

• Art flies free: a profile of Jeff Keen

  Tuesday 21 April, 2009

  Oh what a difference two-and-a-half decades make in a human’s twilight years! There are two …

• Come back fighting

  Tuesday 14 April, 2009

  Mickey Rourke makes an outstanding return to acting's top flight with an incredible performance as Randy “The Ram” Robinson, writes Alex King.

• Watchmen

  Tuesday 14 April, 2009

  Schoolboy heroics: Watchmen is certainly faithful to its source material, but whether that makes it a good film is another matter for Robin Stevens.

• ‘If it can be written or thought it can be filmed’

  Tuesday 3 March, 2009

  Alex King continues the Boar's director profiles with a look at the ever-controversial works of Stanley Kubrick.

• Playing cops and robbers

  Tuesday 3 March, 2009

  Matt Freeman returns to the scene of the crime in his re-viewing of Michael Mann's classic Heat.