Evan Almighty
A former TV personality gets elected to Washington and finds himself having to build something ridiculous. This sort-of sequel to Bruce Almighty features Bruce’s smarmy co-host Evan (Steve Carell), who’s […]
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Apollo 11
This documentary takes us back to the summer of ’69 and the lunar mission by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, including film never before seen by the public. […]
The Pledge
Jack Nicholson plays Jerry White, a retiring cop who takes on one last case after some rather unreasonable battery farmers make him swear on his eternal soul to find the […]
Cherry Pop
When an upstart drag queen (Lars Berge) makes her onstage debut at nightclub Cherry Pop, she faces hostility from the more seasoned queens, and is thrust into the limelight when […]
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is born in a workhouse under the cruel management of Mr Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), a sort of Victorian Mike Ashley. When Oliver runs away […]
Rambo III
In his third outing (wisely not called First Blood: Part III) Sylvester Stallone’s traumatised vet turns Afghanistan into Afgunistan when he goes there to rescue his only friend, Colonel Trautman […]
2001: A Space Odyssey
In possibly the most ambitious film ever made, Stanley Kubrick seeks to show no less than the entire history of humanity, from the first humans to our potential exploration of […]
Madeleine
The titular Madeleine (Ann Todd) is torn between her father’s (Leslie Banks) wish for her to find an eligible suitor, and secret love Emile (Ivan Desny), the economically inferior and […]
Hulk
Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is a nuclear researcher with a dark and convoluted past. His estranged father (Nick Nolte) coincidentally worked in the exact same field, carrying out experiments with […]
The Mummy
It’s the first in our new series where we’re reviewing all the films in the Universal Dark Universe! It begins with the discovery of an Egyptian tomb in London (yes, […]
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