Carol
“Oh Carol,” Chuck Berry once sang, “don’t let him steal your heart away.” Or her, in this case. Adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, Carol is the story of an affair between two […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 3D
I think this yoghurt is haunted. That’s the last time I buy Paranormal Activia. I’ve wasted enough time complaining about found footage films, so I’ll spare you another rant about watching […]
Steve Jobs
From the writer of The Social Network comes the story of a socially inept inventor who founded a giant tech company. Who says Hollywood has no new ideas? Steve Jobs […]
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Our Marithon continues with 1954’s There’s No Business Like Show Business, the story of a Vaudeville family-act called The Five Donahues – like the Osmonds but with Ethel Merman instead […]
Son of Rambow
From Be Kind Rewind to Super 8, there have been a few movies about amateur filmmaking in recent years. But there’s nothing amateur about Son of Rambow, the 2007 comedy written and directed by […]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
With the discovery this week of the biggest diamond for 100 years, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to look back at a film based around the girl’s […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Everybody’s favourite dystopian gameshow is back – but enough about The Apprentice, here’s the final Hunger Games movie. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is too long, both as a title […]
Bonnie and Clyde
This 1967 classic tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the Depression-era outlaws with one simple objective: “We rob banks.” Arthur Penn’s movie humanises Bonnie and Clyde without glamorising them. […]
Psych-Out
Psych-Out is a 1968 psychedelic drama directed by Richard Rush, and Richard rushed to get the movie made in time to cash in on the Summer of Love. The film […]
Frankenstein (1931)
This is the definitive adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel – the one you’ve seen clips of, and the one a million later Frankenstein’s monsters have been modelled on. Created […]
