Rory Doherty

London

critic/screenwriter • ppa award finalist x2 • trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ • ✍️ Flicks, TIME, Big Issue, Inverse, GQ, Vulture, BFI, AV Club • ✉️: [email protected]

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What to Watch After 'Squid Game' | TIME

17 hours ago | time.com | Rory Doherty

Here are ten recommendations for dystopian series to watch after the climactic finale of Squid Game
10 great shark attack films

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel

Released in the summer of 1975, 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws made audiences around the globe afraid to go back into the water. Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes of carefree tourists swimming are juxtaposed with ominous shots of their dangling legs beneath the waves, all intensified by John Williams’ famous menacing score.
Review: Revolutionary Road

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Amelia Berry |Rory Doherty |Dominic Corry |Liam Maguren

Having relationship issues? Well, be warned that Revolutionary Road tackles the politics of ‘settling down’ head-on, without flinching. It’s classy, it’s pretty, sometimes it’s even very, very funny, but not once does it release its grip on the theme. Arguably the two most watchable Hollywood stars of their generation, Winslet and DiCaprio are at their peaks – nailing every difficult scene, feeding off each other, making the Wheelers seem as real as the seat you’re sitting in.
10 great British animated feature films

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel |Stephen G. Dalton

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special. 12 June 2025A quarter of a century after its release, Chicken Run (2000) remains the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
‎‘Ad Astra’ review by Rory Doherty • Letterboxd

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Rory Doherty |James Gray

Liked I knew something was funky with this movie when I first saw it in cinemas – the voiceover, the strange cutting – so I felt vindicated for 22 year old Rory today when I googled "Ad Astra directors cut" and saw an article from 3 years ago where James Gray confirmed he was locked out of the editing room. Always heartbreaking to hear happened with a proper director, and a disastrous choice for the film – it's an economic, sensitive and sterling space exploration drama that plays beautifully...
‎‘West Side Story’ review by Rory Doherty • Letterboxd

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Rory Doherty |Jerome Robbins |Robert Wise

Hold my hand and we're halfway there. Hold my hand and I'll take you thereI imagine I'll find new layers to my love for this film over the forthcoming years as this was my first rewatch – listen, any classic and emotional film that is a favourite of your mother's will inevitably come back with a vengeance later in life.
Netflix Just Quietly Added The Most Influential Psychological Thrillers Of All Time

3 weeks ago | inverse.com | Rory Doherty

Alfred Hitchcock made commercial pictures — from the ‘40s onward, the English director of Psycho, Vertigo, and North By Northwest established himself in America as a sterling, reputable producer of terrific genre fare on the scale and timeline required by Hollywood studios.
Ballerina Painfully Contorts Itself to the John Wick Mold

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Rory Doherty

Who directed what scenes in Ballerina? Did Len Wiseman, director of Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard, really step aside for John Wick maestro Chad Stahelski to clean up an unsatisfying franchise entry (as reported on live television by actor Ian McShane), or were the additional shoots an innocuous combination of restoring what was initially cut for budget reasons and an unfortunate health scare that took Wiseman away from set, as confirmed by Wiseman and Stahelski on the press tour?
Kevin Smith’s Movies Still Matter (Because They Don’t Matter)

3 weeks ago | menshealth.com | Rory Doherty

“I’M NOT EVEN supposed to be here today!” So laments Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) throughout Kevin Smith’s 1994 film Clerks during a particularly arduous shift at the New Jersey convenience store where he works a dead end job. The line is a motto that wouldn’t just become the catchphrase for Clerks’s no-budget slacker ennui, but summarizes the uniquely strange career that Smith has had since making his writing and directing debut in the mid ‘90s.
Kevin Smith’s Movies Still Matter (Because They Don’t Matter)

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Rory Doherty

Kevin Smith’s Movies Still Matter MH Illustration/Jason Speakman/Getty Images/Miramax/Lionsgate"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."“I’M NOT EVEN supposed to be here today!”So laments Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) throughout Kevin Smith’s 1994 film Clerks during a particularly arduous shift at the New Jersey convenience store where he works a dead end job.