The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
Godzilla (1998)
1998 was not a great year for films. Top at the box office was Armageddon, a film so bad Michael Bay apologised for it. Elsewhere in the top ten are […]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos directs this follow-up to his 2015 film The Lobster. It follows a couple, doctors Anna and Steven (Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell), whose children fall ill in unexplained […]
Book review: La Belle Sauvage
After a long wait, Philip Pullman has released a follow-up to his wildly successful and highly acclaimed His Dark Materials, forming the first installment of a new trilogy; The Book […]
The Death of Stalin
It’s 1953 in Moscow, and the world’s worst ever secretary, Joseph Stalin, has snuffed it. It’s left to his surviving cabinet – a mixture of the slavishly devoted, cut-throat and […]
JFK
Oliver Stone directs this story of the search for truth in the years following the assassination of John F Kennedy. It follows New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) […]
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Twenty years on from the original airing of the ground-breaking Brass Eye, a raft of unseen clips that never made it onto the small screen are resurrected on the big […]
Blade Runner: 2049
It’s thirty years after Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young) drove off into the sunset or awkwardly began their origami business together in a dingy apartment block, depending […]
The Elephant Man
When you think of David Lynch it’s easy to think of films like the painfully long and totally nonsensical Inland Empire, and forget how great he is at directing more […]
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Set a couple of hundred years after Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Exodus follows Moses, the adoptive son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, where the Jews are enslaved. But Moses has an […]
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