Incredibles 2
When it comes to sequels, Pixar and baby Jack-Jack have something in common: the Terrible Twos. Monsters University was about as welcome as Freshers’ Flu, and the less said about […]
Monthly Archives: July 2018
I’ve never seen…My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a working class flower vendor on the streets of London. She’s plucked from her meagre existence by Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant phonetician who […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Everyone’s favourite ass-kicking Scientologist is back as Ethan Hunt, the super-spy who spends two and a half hours falling out of cars, windows and helicopters. This is Mission: Impossible – […]
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo follows an American ballet student (Jessica Harper) who goes to Germany to attend the most prestigious dance school in Europe. Imagine the Grand Budapest Hotel converted into an abattoir. […]
The Remains of the Day
Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in 1993’s The Remains of the Day, the next in our series of movies where Hopkins is linked to a woman at least 20 years his junior. […]
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
10 years after the world’s most profitable amateur production, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again arrives like a drunken relative at the karaoke, too wasted to remember the lyrics. It’s […]
Muriel’s Wedding
Toni Colette is Muriel, a down-beaten young woman who fills the hole in her life with ABBA and dreams of the perfect wedding in her dead-end hometown of Porpoise Spit. Along […]
Generation Wealth
This timely documentary about our cultural obsession with wealth comes the same week that Forbes declared Kylie Jenner a “self-made billionaire,” because words don’t matter nowadays. Only capital. And we don’t […]
Barry Humphries: Weimar Cabaret
Barry Humphries, better known as alter ego Dame Edna Everage, presents a repertoire of cabaret classics from Weimar Germany complete with full jazz orchestra and delightfully elegant cabaret artist Meow […]
Marrowbone
Set in 1969, Marrowbone follows an English family fleeing to America. Remember when that was a good idea? This Spanish-produced but English-language (debatable given some of the dialogue) chiller is written […]
