Suki Ferguson

Suki Ferguson is a Pure Movies writer & editor. She has also written for Total Film and maintains a feminist friendly pop-culture blog, here.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

17th May 2013

Though this version of Gatsby is full of jarring elements at first appraisal, the combination of a faithful script, high production values and excellent performances creates an absorbingly eccentric artistic statement. Whether it’s a statement you’ll relish is another matter: this is ‘Gatsby’ on a cocaine binge.

Continue reading...

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

11th February 2013

If you’re looking for thrills, you’ll have more fun with watching Psycho itself. And if you want a glimpse of the psychology that drove the man, there’s always Vertigo.

Continue reading...

It Always Rains On Sunday

It Always Rains On Sunday

21st November 2012

Though this classic Ealing drama may be rather slow going for a modern audience, there’s a humanist understanding of those struggling along in uncelebrated roles in lowly circumstances that deserves respect.

Continue reading...

The Landlord

The Landlord

17th October 2012

The Landlord is a real race-relations curio; a social comedy that atomizes racial tension in a post-Sixties Brooklyn neighbourhood.

Continue reading...

Drive

Drive

4th June 2012

When Nicholas Winding Refn compels you to look, look you shall. This is that rare find: a film that’s worth paying to see properly.

Continue reading...

Insidious

Insidious

17th September 2011

Insidious is an absurd, poorly acted film that will still make you shriek like a little girl, despite your better instincts.

Continue reading...

The Eagle

The Eagle

16th July 2011

What could have been an intelligent revival of the classics-themed adventure genre feels disappointingly standard issue

Continue reading...

Tree Of Life

Tree Of Life

16th July 2011

Though gorgeous to look at, Tree of Life is almost too absurd to carry the weight of its own shifts in tone, and the ending takes the occasionally over-literal philosophising beyond the point of profundity and into cheesy Christian territory.

Continue reading...

Holy Rollers

Holy Rollers

8th July 2011

Holy Rollers takes a true story about a ring of Hasidic Jewish drug smugglers based in 90s Brooklyn and makes it into something much less interesting or amusing than it has any right to be.

Continue reading...

Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids

23rd June 2011

Bridesmaids brims with lively, wicked humour, and it stands out from its predecessors for being so real about the ups and downs of friendship, employment and romance.

Continue reading...