film critic Archives - Desperate Living

Looking back at the life and work of one of the iconic figures of British horror film criticism.

Mainstream film critics are the last people who we should be listening to about anything.

Paul Verhoeven looks set for a return to upsetting the critical dullards with an erotic and provocative nunsploitation movie.

It’s time that we took comedy a lot more seriously as an art form.

Looking back at the short series of underrated and provocative films that Boris Karloff made for Columbia Pictures at the start of the 1940s.

The perils of letting a frumpy film critic influence your way of thinking.

What the hinterlands of IMDb’s user reviews tell us about the human condition.