Raiders: The Story of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
In the 1980s three boys, Chris, Eric and Jayson, decided to recreate Raiders of the Lost Ark shot for shot. It would go on to become a Kaufman-esque undertaking which […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
A Fish Called Wanda
A diamond heist goes wrong in this comedy menagerie of fish, dogs and Pythons. I loved A Fish Called Wanda as a child, so it pains me that this rewatch left […]
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox plays a transformer of sorts in Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s feminist horror/comedy, whose high school succubus plot resembles a combination of the novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold Our Souls by […]
All is True
This is the a film about the later years of Shakespeare’s (Kenneth Branagh) life as he deals with the twin tragedies of the death of his son, Hamnet, and the […]
RBG
As often happens, this documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives ahead of a biopic (On the Basis of Sex), where we’ll get to see the same events again […]
Music for 18 Musicians
This concert, hosted by the South Bank Centre, is a programme of all things Steve Reich, performed by the London Sinfonietta. For a minimalist work, the venue was rather maximalist, with […]
Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist
London’s Vault Festival includes in its theatre/comedy line-up this wonderfully modern take on a tale as old as A Christmas Carol: a depressed man receives a spiritual visitor who helps […]
Pitch Perfect
This is a competition movie about two a cappella singing teams, the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers, at a university for the musically impaired. I hated this film and I […]
The Lego Movie 2
The follow-up to the wildly successful Lego Movie takes upbeat builder Emmett (Chris Pratt) into space to the Systar System in search of his his friends who have been abducted […]
