Greek weird-wave titan Yorgos Lanthimos has opted for a slight change of tack with Bugonia. After two ambitious projects - the Oscar-winning Poor Things and the more coolly received feel-bad anthology Kinds of Kindness - the director offers a lean and mean thriller with more focus and momentum than any of his work since The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
This ineffably creepy, often unbearably tense and disquieting film has a little of early Christopher Nolan (the Nolan of Following and Memento), with hints of Lynch and Cronenberg in its hallucinatory episodes.
To see a film like this representing the trans community with a lead intersex character [like] we've never seen before - so in your face - it's f***ing wild and messy and it's a wild ride.
In Cold Light prizing visceral impact over narrative clarity sometimes leaves too many unanswered questions, but there isn't much time to criticize while the film races forward.
If you're looking for something to scratch a Die Hard itch, that is certainly what Last Resort is trying to do, but there are many superior Die Hard rip-offs available.
Forsyth's literary journey began as a Royal Air Force pilot and foreign correspondent, culminating in global fame with his political thriller, The Day of the Jackal.