Ma
New stalker movie Ma joins the ranks of horror films that sound like animal noises, alongside Raw and Scream (if you’ve ever heard foxes having sex). Octavia Spencer gives a Masterclass as […]
Monthly Archives: June 2019
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
The latest and probably final film in the original Marvel cinematic universe takes place some time after they gave up trying to maintain any kind of continuity in the franchise. […]
Blithe Spirit
Author Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth (Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings) invite a spirit medium (Margaret Rutherford) to dinner as research for a new book. But the séance goes […]
Great Expectations
Pip’s life gets pepped after he pops into a graveyard in David Lean’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ penultimate novel. Watching it now, Pip’s story is less than revelatory and perhaps […]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
The bastardisation of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s masterpiece continues with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, even though he already returned in the first film. Released and set […]
Death Becomes Her
Madeleine and Helen (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) will stop at nothing to stay looking young, so when they reach the limits of plastic surgery they’re tempted to drink an […]
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is jonesing for a man so badly that she’s not prepared to wait for one who’s actually nice to her. This 2001 rom-com is as lazy as […]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The world’s most infamous reptile is back for round two as team Monarch tags him in. Monarch in this case is a crypto-zoological organisation with the same logo as Extinction […]
Moby: Then It Fell Apart
Moby’s well-received first memoir, Porcelain, covered his experiences as a New York DJ in the 80s and 90s, and ended tantalizingly on the eve of his mega-successful breakthrough album Play. […]
The Sound Barrier
David Lean directs this fictionalised tale of the early attempts to break the sound barrier. It follows the head of an aviation company, John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson) and his daughter […]
