Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (Johnny Lee Miller) faces the consequences of the maddest experiment since they made that reality TV host US President, in this production from the National Theatre. […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
Circus of Books
Documentarian Rachel Mason investigates her own family to find out more about the gay porn business her heterosexual parents have run for 30 years, while hiding the true nature of […]
At Eternity’s Gate
In his final years, Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) battles vicious critics of his work and his own inner demons. While Vincent and Loving Vincent are retrospective views of the […]
The Adventures of Tintin
Boy-faced boffin Tintin (Jamie Bell) buys a model boat at a flea market which leads him to drunken sailor Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) and the promise of buried treasure. Like […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
When MacMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is committed to a sleepy psychiatric hospital for evaluation he shakes up their mundane routine from under the watchful eye of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Jack […]
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In Berlin a murderer (Peter Lorre) is on the loose, preying on young girls. As the police repeatedly fail to catch him, angry mob bosses and an angry mob take […]
Conan the Borebarian
When Conan’s tribe is brutally massacred he goes on a quest for vengeance. Again. Having recently sat through Red Sonja we decided to round off the Conan canon with 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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