The Last Supper
This 1995 dark comedy sees a group of murderous liberals (Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance) inviting conservatives to dinner where poisoned wine is […]
Monthly Archives: December 2019
The Lady Vanishes
In the snowy Bandrikan mountains a group of holiday makers are left stranded in a hotel during an avalanche. It then switches from The Hateful Eight to Murder on the […]
A Simple Favor
Blake Lively turns deadly in Paul Feig’s 2018 incest comedy. And if you’re thinking “but incest isn’t funny,” in this case you’d be right. The incest subplot also has no […]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A couple, Jill and Bob Lawrence (Edna Best and Leslie Banks), are on a skiing holiday in the Alps with daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). When a holiday friend (Pierre Fresnay) […]
I’ve Never Seen… Dirty Dancing
Patrick Swayze shows off his mambo skills in the Catskills in this 1987 dance-and-abortion classic. There are two interesting things about Dirty Dancing and they’re both Gilmore Girls related: the choreography […]
Let’s Make it Legal
Apparently the title of this film is something to do with marriage, but all I could think of was Palpatine talking to those racist aliens in The Phantom Menace… The […]
Judy & Punch
The random property-to-make-into-a-film generator lands this week on Punch and Judy, the Sooty and Sweep of domestic violence. As the reversed title suggests, this Punch has been spiked with feminism […]
Don’t Bother to Knock
Set in a New York hotel with so much crime it needs an in-house detective, Don’t Bother to Knock follows Nell (Marilyn Monroe) who’s babysitting for the well-to-do Joneses (Lurene […]
Charlie’s Angels (2019)
The 4th Charlie’s Angels incarnation is the first to only feature two Angels; not a great start when a third of your main characters don’t bother showing up. Elizabeth Banks’ […]
Knives Out
Wealthy crime author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his country mansion, his throat cut in an apparent suicide. But private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) suspects foul […]
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