Point Break
With a dreaded remake due this Christmas, let’s look back at 1991’s action classic Point Break, and to a time before Kathryn Bigelow exclusively made films about American war crimes. Executive produced […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
On the seedy streets of Bad City (presumably twinned with Sin City), a predatory young woman (Sheila Vand) meets a handsome drug dealer (Arash Marandi). Let’s call it Under the […]
San Andreas
California is hit by a devastating series of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault, demolishing buildings, destroying bridges, crushing roads and killing people. But there’s one rock that won’t budge […]
The Amityville Horror
To quote the late great Roger Ebert: “What Jesus was to the 1950s movie epic, the devil is to the 1970s.” Another post-Exorcist Satan movie, The Amityville Horror is supposedly […]
The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno takes place in the tallest skyscraper ever built, whose exclusive opening party is gatecrashed by a massive fire. Every new perceived threat seems to generate a spate of disaster movies, warning […]
Solaris
In the immortal words of Boney M: “Oh, those Russians…” One can’t help but agree with the sentiment when watching Solaris, a three-hour Soviet sci-fi slog. Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) […]
The Mad Max Quadrilogy
As Mad Max: Fury Road roars into cinemas, let’s take a look at George Miller’s dystopian franchise, set in a post-apocalyptic Australia where all that survived armageddon is leather. Mad […]
Girlhood
This is a French drama about a teenage girl named Marieme (Karidja Touré), who lives in a deprived Parisian neighbourhood. With a difficult home life and no real opportunities, she […]
Licence to Kill
Timothy Dalton makes his second and final appearance as James Bond in Licence to Kill, which is English for License to Kill. Dalton’s Bond is a more serious character than […]
Big Game
A 13 year old Finnish boy, Oskari (Onni Tommila), is sent into the forest to prove his hunting prowess as a test of his manhood. However, he finds a bigger prize […]
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