On iPlayer: Primary Colors
Adding credence to the notion that any rich schmuck can be president, John Travolta plays a Democratic candidate in this 1998 political satire. Adapted from an anonymously published novel about […]
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Air Force One
Harrison Ford and the Force are reunited in this 1997 actioner where Air Force One gets hijacked. If only there was someone on board who could fly a plane. This […]
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
A young man (Friedrich Fehér) recounts the tale of the mysterious circus performer Dr Caligari (Werner Krauss ), his future-seeing somnambulist (Conrad Veidt), and the traumatic series of murders that […]
Terminator Salvation
2009 sequel Terminator Salvation is the only movie in the franchise that doesn’t feature time travel, unless you count travelling back to the year Sam Worthington appeared in some films. […]
The Abyss
When a nuclear sub goes missing, the crew of a deep sea oil rig are enlisted to help secure the missiles. But they end up in a fight for survival […]
Source Code
Watching the Source Code DVD, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d accidentally put in The Adam and Joe DVD, since it starts with a gum advert voiced by Adam Buxton […]
Looper
Mob hitman Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) executes people who are sent from the future, where it’s easier to send someone back through time than it is to kill them. One day, […]
Red Sonja
Arnold Schwarzenegger steals Sylvester Stallone’s wife in 1985 fantasy flop Red Sonja, a warrior woman’s (Brigitte Nielsen) quest for revenge against the evil queen (Sandahl Bergman) who killed her family. […]
Troy
Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen swaps the boots for sandals in this 2004 epic based on Homer’s Iliad but closer in quality to that Carol Ann Duffy poem about David Beckham. […]
The Untouchables
Having decided he was done making Psycho (until Raising Cain at least), Brian De Palma turned to crime (filming it rather than committing it) in the 1980s, directing Al Pacino in […]
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