Stephen Lee Naish

Steve Naish dissects Kathryn Bigelow's early 1990s' dirty classic, revealing a film broken into two opposing dualities that reflect the spirit of the leads (played by Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze) - find out more about the new book

By Stephen Lee Naish Post-apocalyptic narratives often take place deep into the future and depict an environment that is barren, resource deprived and ruled by monstrous warlords.

YouTuber-turned-filmmaker explores our modern fear of soulless workspaces with a horror movie rooted in an old internet obsession - in cinemas on Friday, May 29th

Post-catastrophe world transitions toward a viable future, in this meaningful yet humdrum sequel to the 2021 movie - on selected VoD platforms

While the ecological crisis that befalls the country is relegated to the background, it is worth looking at the narrative of survival through the lens of the ‘post-catastrophe’ framework.

Clint Bentley's second directorial feature is a impactful study of a construction worker navigating the unseen upheavals of modernity from his refreshingly rural vantage point - now on Netflix

In the introduction to his 1980 book A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, film critic Robert Kolker notes that the films made by these male auteurs “speak to a continual impotence in the world, an inability to change

Josh tasks his beautiful android girlfriend with a very peculiar mission, in this testing tale of human love, robots and corruption - on various VoD platforms

An Essay on the Mumblecore movement of indie cinema that occurred between 2006-2016 and featured the early acting and directing works of Greta Gerwig, Lena Dunham, and the Duplass brothers.

War Paint: Women at War is a powerful commentary on women's roles in conflict, showing how art offers resilience, courage, and hope.

In Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez recall their meeting and music career in The Mars Volta and beyond.

Can you imagine a society entirely ruled by women? German filmmaker Irene von Alberti did just that, in her biting satire of gender roles - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Aude Léa Rapin's sci-fi offers a grim representation of a dystopian French state that has emerged into a high-surveillance, low-tolerance society - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival

Despite its dour worldview, antagonistic posture, and, at the time of its release in the summer of 1994, quite poor sales, ‘The Holy Bible’ has been recast as a triumph of extreme art. Includes interview with author David Evans.

An essay by Stephen Lee Naish about his soon to be released book, Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper, 1st Edition, Copyright 2024.

British born, Ontario-based writer Steve Naish reveals the dirty tunes that helped to define. lift and illuminate the movies of late American auteur Dennis Hopper

Under the fun and easygoing direction of Norwegian filmmaker and screenwriter Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage plays a role that mirrors his very own journey - in cinemas on Friday, December 8th

Venezuelan drama investigates the crippling desire to create a world of destruction, and the power of music in a damaged world - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival

Dennis Hopper had a career that surfed high art and low culture effortlessly, his last movies 'Homeless' and 'Pashmy Dream' interesting notes to go out on. Essay by Stephen Lee Naish.

Perhaps this is the anthem of Commando as a whole. Don’t think, don’t ask questions, just shut up, watch, and enjoy.