The Hunt (2020)
Not to be confused with the Thomas Vinterberg movie, The Hunt is a Blumhouse thriller where liberal elites take cancel culture to the extreme by hunting conservative “deplorables” for sport. Ironically […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
On iPlayer: Operation Avalanche
Operation Avalanche is the second feature from Matt Johnson, the maverick filmmaker behind Nirvanna the Band the Show. Anyone familiar with that brilliant series will be unsurprised to learn that […]
Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island
A group of Hollywood executives defile the deceased stars of a 1970s TV series in this drivellous rehash of Fantasy Island. Currently sporting a surprisingly generous 7% on Rotten Tomatoes, […]
On iPlayer: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Available on iPlayer for another four days, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things is a 2019 documentary about a woman with considerably better timing than us. Leslie Woodhead’s film […]
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
A group of teenagers interrupt a hillbilly fishing trip in this sar-donic slasher from 2010. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil retells a […]
Billie
The dispassionate sensationalism of True Crime continues to seep into sensitive cultural environments in this new Billie Holiday documentary. It starts with ominous text introducing the late journalist Linda Kuehl […]
Deliverance
Four businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) take a canoe trip down a Georgia river before it – and they – are dammed. Before temporarily scuppering his career with Zardoz, […]
Batman Forever
We now return to our regularly scheduled programme of reviewing all the films Michael Owen hasn’t seen. More a threat than a title, Batman Forever stars Val Kilmer as Gotham’s […]
#HateFilms: The Karate Kid
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
#HateFilms: Heat
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]
