Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

Despite Hollywood’s monopoly on film, some of the best and most imaginative thrillers have come from elsewhere. As ever, with the culture of consumption in the world as it is today, visibility for many of these films is limited. Dare I say it, there are still many out there who baulk at the very idea of subtitles, a baffling problem, you might agree.

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Well this is something of a thankless task. One could argue there is no bigger name in Hollywood in terms of directors than Steven Spielberg, and across his thirty five feature length films (as well as directing a segment of the 1983 Twilight Zone movie) he has wowed audiences with his ability to blend spectacle and emotion, not to mention storytelling, on a scale tha...

The best thrillers of 2026 so far don’t look, sound, and feel like the traditional thrillers of old. Horror might be cinematic gold right now, but the modern thriller is having something of an existential crisis. Once the home of adult-oriented storytelling, the genre now finds itself struggling to make it off streaming sites and back onto big screens.

As a gen...

Peter Parker’s secret is once more safe as Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits our cinema screens this week. But at what cost, following the events of the previous instalment?

The first appearance of our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man was all the way back in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy in 1962, and since then, he’s become one of the most popular and ...

World champion bodybuilder. Blockbuster movie star. Governor of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved massive feats for a country boy from a small town in Austria, certainly, and the legacy that still resonates the strongest is that of his movie career.

Although he attempted getting work in celluloid from the late 60s, Hollywood really took notice after th...