The Elephant Man
When you think of David Lynch it’s easy to think of films like the painfully long and totally nonsensical Inland Empire, and forget how great he is at directing more […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Set a couple of hundred years after Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Exodus follows Moses, the adoptive son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, where the Jews are enslaved. But Moses has an […]
Napoleon
Charting the meteoric rise of one of the most influential figures in European history, from his humble beginnings in Corsica to conquering Italy for the French, this 1927 epic breaks […]
Desperately Seeking Susan
Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta Glass, a young woman who’s hung up on Susan (Madonna), a beautiful stranger who organises romantic liaisons through the personals section of a New York newspaper. […]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Matthew Broderick plays Ferris Bueller, an ageing Roger the Dodger who manages to convince his entire community that he’s seriously ill while he actually spends the day out and about […]
It (2017)
The WCA (World Clown Association) have recently gotten hot under the ruffled collar over the new film of Stephen King’s It, worried that the killer clown antagonist will damage their in-no-way-terrifying […]
Stephen King’s It (1990)
Originally written in January 2014 No, this isn’t a film about the famous author losing a game of tag, it’s actually a horror film about a clown with non-specific motives […]
Wind River
With Thor and the Hulk pairing up in Thor: Ragnarok, and Spider-Man and Iron Man teaming up in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Hollywood has taken the next logical step and given Hawkeye and Scarlet […]
Christmas Evil
Concluding my confusingly-timed trilogy of Christmas horror movie reviews is Christmas Evil, described by John Waters as “the greatest Christmas movie ever made.” This ho-ho-horror film from 1980 has a couple […]
Dead Poets Society
In 1959, students at the elite Welton Academy find their lives shaken up by the arrival of an unorthodox English teacher, Mr. Keating (Robin Williams). He teaches them to think […]
