Burlesque
Christina Aguilera is Ali, a fresh off the bus singer looking to make it big in LA. There she stumbles into a burlesque club and sets her sights on becoming […]
Us
This home inversion movie follows a woman (Lupita Nyong’o) whose trauma from a childhood funhouse experience resurfaces while on a beach holiday with her family – essentially The Strangers by […]
Dark Water
Given the multitude of movies about writers, journalists and even publishers, it’s nice to see a film about a proofreader for a change considering they’re just as impotant. This 2002 […]
Face/Off
No this isn’t a film about what happens if you get on the wrong side of a chimp. It’s about a notorious gangster, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and a top […]
The Scorpion King
Back in 2002 before Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson had perfected his personal brand of star vehicle, he starred in wacky genre fare like this spin-off from the second remake of the The […]
The Big Trail
This early John Wayne film from 1931 sees a band of pioneers heading out West to start a new town along the Oregon Trail. Together the families traverse dangerous plains […]
Sorry, Wrong Number
Thrillers have always exploited the latest methods of communication, whether people are witnessing murders over Skype (Unfriended), telephones (Phone Booth), pigeon (Bird Box) or cave paintings (Ice Age). 1948’s Sorry, […]
