Dan Haygarth

  • What do you do when Martin Scorsese says that your films aren’t ‘proper’ cinema? It’s not a quandary that many directors have had to ponder. The Russo Brothers—directors of four incredibly lucrative Marvel fi […]

  • Dan Haygarth wrote a new post 5 years ago

    Nothing says Christmas like a low-rent British gangster film.
    Whether it’s the lack of humour, gratuitous violence or miserable characters, Silent Night is full of festive spirit. Who needs It’s a Wonderful Lif […]

  • Raging Bull is a violent film.

    That in itself is no surprise, considering that it captures the brutality of boxing in a brazen manner.

    It is, however, a film which lands its toughest blows outside of the […]

  • We know what we’re getting from Liam Neeson these days.

    12 years have passed since Taken became a hit. Suddenly, the serious star of Schindler’s List and Michael Collins became a rather surprising action her […]

  • A celebration of music, creativity and nightlife, Oliver Murray’s documentary Ronnie’s is a surprisingly pertinent film that captures the importance of the arts and illustrates late 20th-century London in an allu […]

  • Earlier this month, the film industry was rocked by the news that the already delayed James Bond film No Time to Die had been pushed back again, and will now be released in April 2021.

    Before this crushing […]