Luke Buckmaster

Somehow overlooked, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is a lean, bruising crime ride that deserves to make more cultural noise.

Come for the ping-pong, stay for the panic attack. Timothée Chalamet’s latest film defies sports movie conventions and serves a hell of a spectacle.

Joe Dante’s cult classic The ’Burbs exposes the dark comedy lurking beneath suburban calm—and with a new TV remake on the way, its paranoia feels more relevant than ever.

Now available to stream, Tron: Ares reinvents the iconic science fiction franchise, bringing its burningly bright virtual world crashing into ours. This piece was originally published on October 15, 2025.

Nouvelle Vague is a stylish, feel-good love letter to Jean-Luc Godard’s great film Breathless. Luke Buckmaster unpacks the perfect movie double bill.

Netflix delivers another jaw-dropping true-crime tale, unpacking the horrific story of Jodi Hildebrandt with some surprising restraint.

A killer coin and jaw-dropping death scenes make Bloodlines a standout horror experience.

Now on Netflix, Cover-Up explores the career of legendary reporter Seymour M. Hersh and the battles behind publishing uncomfortable truths.

Few werewolf movies get under your skin like Wolf Man. This hugely under-rated film beckons to be rediscovered, writes Luke Buckmaster, in a piece that was originally published in January 2025.

James Cameron’s latest blockbuster dazzles with glossy spectacle, but the real revolutions and creative upheavals in motion picture technology are happening elsewhere, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Mr Bean may be retired, but Rowan Atkinson’s signature brand of chaos survives in this fun new series—with awkward stunts, eyebrow gymnastics, and a baby turning his life upside down.

Quentin Tarantino’s century-best list gets turned upside down in Luke Buckmaster’s lively, opinion-soaked re-rank guaranteed to provoke film-lover debate.

In the lead-up to next year’s creature feature Primate, we celebrate George Romero’s 1988 horror classic—the only evil monkey movie that truly earns its bananas.

Rose Byrne detonates the screen in this blistering, uneasy, darkly comic character study that grips like a vise and refuses to let go.

Joel Edgerton has drawn widespread acclaim for his performance in Netflix’s beautifully composed meditation on work, wonder, and lives that slip quietly through history’s cracks.

With Predator: Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg turns franchise pulp into genuine worldbuilding—giving the franchise new moral terrain and unexpected softnesss.

What if the end of the world felt…kind of lovely? The new show from the creator of Breaking Bad creates a truly genre-breaking apocalypse.

With Predator: Badlands currently in cinemas, now’s a good time to revisit Dan Trachtenberg’s previous film Prey – a masterful mix of sweat, blood, myth, and muscle. This article was originally published on May 2, 2025.

Netflix’s four-part drama dives into the messy events leading up to the assassination of U.S. President James A Garfield. With excellent performances and a cracking script, this ain’t a dry history lesson.

With Keanu Reeves back on the big screen in Good Fortune, it’s the perfect time to revisit his most under-appreciated film: a mind-bending, visually unique sci-fi.

Part true crime and part social study, Netflix’s hit documentary uses police bodycam footage to explore how fear and racism fuel tragedy.