The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
When is a director not a director? And I don’t mean M. Night Shyamalan; I’m talking about films with misleading director credits, such as Poltergeist secretly being directed by Steven […]
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Species
An alien hybrid escapes containment and hits the LA clubs for some procreational activities in this 1995 sci-fi/horror that they should have called Sex Predator. Itself a hybrid of Rabid […]
Little Monsters
A kindergarten trip to a petting farm is gatecrashed by a zombie outbreak in this Australian zom-com, or perhaps a zoombie movie. You don’t have to be Edgar Wright to […]
Chicken Run
In the original chick flick, the residents of an egg farm dream of escape from the tyrannical yoke of Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) and her scramble-brained husband. After hatching many […]
WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc
WITCH is a rockumentary which celebrates the rich history and present-day sitch of Zambian rock band WITCH. Rockumentaries have a tendency to conform to type, a consequence of there being […]
The Irishman
This is the story of a mob hit man (Robert De Niro) and his relationships with an elderly crime boss (Joe Pesci) and a charismatic union leader (Al Pacino). Martin […]
The Laundromat
When her husband (James Cromwell) dies in a boat crash, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) goes in search of the compensation she’s owned and discovers a global labyrinth of exotically-based companies […]
Brick
Claire from Lost gets lost and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (currently MIA from acting) tracks her down in Rian Johnson’s debut feature. I’ve seen this film three times and still have no […]
The Good Liar
Dodgy codger Roy (Ian McKellen) sees easy prey in wealthy widow Betty (Helen Mirren) when they meet on a dating site for people of advanced years, but will he go […]
Hustlers
Based on a real case from 2008, Hustlers follows a group of New York strippers (including Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Scream Queens‘ Keke Palmer) who withstand the financial crisis by […]
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