Clash of the Titans (1981)
When the infant Perseus (Harry Hamlin), son of Zeus (Laurence Olivier), is almost murdered by his adoptive father, he is sent on a mission to reclaim what’s his, save his […]
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Darkest Hour
Not to be confused with 2011 Emile Hirsch vehicle The Darkest Hour 3D, this new Churchill biopic stars Gary Oldman as the Prime Minister in the early days of World War II. […]
Call Me By Your Name
Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is spending the summer in a villa in Italy with his liberal, intellectual parents. His father, a historian, has a student visiting to study with him, the […]
Beetlejuice
Not to be confused with the Simpsons episode The Bart of War, in which Bart and Milhouse consume Beatles-inspired soda drinks (John Lemon, Paul McIced Tea, Orange Harrison and Mango […]
I’ve never seen…Cabaret
Somehow Cabaret has always passed me by – in fact I typically confuse it with Chicago, which I’ve also never seen. But after 26 years of ignorance, Dan was kind […]
Downsizing
Matt “but what about the men who aren’t sexual predators” Damon shrinks in Downsizing, conspicuously absent from an awards season that’s already honoured The Greatest Showman for one of its songs. […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
New comedy/drama/crime flick Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best Woody Harrelson film with an unwieldy title since War for the Planet of the Apes. Frances McDormand gives another powerhouse performance as […]
Magic
Someone’s dummy starts to take over their life in Magic: The Melania Trump Story. Despite appearances, 1978’s Magic is not a haunted doll movie (Annabelle, The Boy, that episode of Buffy) but […]
The Florida Project
Already generating Oscar buzz, The Florida Project joins the ranks of great movies based in motels, alongside Psycho, Memento, Bug and Memento. While the motel-oriented Lady in the Water is set inside M. Night […]
Jumanji
As Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle stampedes the box office, let’s look back on the 1995 original, in which typically obnoxious Robin Williams character Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) discovers the worst board […]
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