Jake Leonard

As Above, So Below teaches us that if ever you find yourself in the catacombs of Paris and you think you know a mystical object is hidden down a scary secret passageway, it’s probably best to leave it… unless you’re a treasure hunting expert-in-practically-everything, like Scarlet Marlowe (the brilliant...

Throughout August, the BFI has organised nationwide screenings of this assorted collection of serials, comedies, songs, and newsreels from 1914 and allowing people with the inclination but without the opportunity to get a taste of what cinema was like a hundred years ago when film as an industry and a...

Hector (Simon Pegg) is a psychiatrist whose life is ordered and organised to a precise pinnacle by himself, his job, and his loving, mothering girlfriend (Rosamund Pike). His life is perfectly content and adequate, but Hector begins to wonder whether he is really happy and, indeed, whether any of...

As Sin City: A Dame to Kill For storms style first into UK theatres, our writers recognise some of the finest films of neo-noir cinema. Blade Runner   The archetypal neo-noir, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is extremely prescient. 32 years after...

Director Brett Ratner’s latest is a mix of action, comedy and loose references to Greek mythology. So keen, it seems, were Ratner and his screenwriters to create this mix that instead made a mess. The script lacks any cohesion and feels as though it was written by a group...

A plot that grafts together E.T., The Goonies, and Super 8 is destined to be overly cutesy and nostalgia-inducing, but at least it’ll be fun. A group of friends living together in a upper-working-class/lower-middle-class suburban neighbourhood in Nevada face having to move elsewhere, and lose the friendships that have...