The Red Turtle
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Finding Nemo, turtles have a reputation in Hollywood of being crass or stoned. As ever, it’s up to a foreign film to redress […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Showgirls
As Twin Peaks returns to the delight and confusion of viewers, let’s look back on Kyle MacLachlan’s career lowlight. And I’m not talking about How I Met Your Mother. This 1995 stripper […]
Baywatch
Hollywood continues its obsession with nostalgic, ironic reboots of ’80s TV shows with Baywatch, which remains the most ’80s TV show of all time despite being on in the ’90s. […]
Battlefield Earth
To celebrate the release of Wonder Woman, the film that critics are already calling “a superhero movie with a woman in it”, let’s look back on another Warner Bros. landmark. It’s the year […]
Christine (1983)
Not to be confused with the Christine Chubbuck biopic Christine (2016), Christine (1983) is a John Carpenter movie about an evil car. It sounds stupid, and it probably is, but Carpenter’s ability as […]
Death Line
We’ve all seen some scary stuff on the London Underground, whether it’s enormous rats, drunk people or a busker playing a particularly harrowing rendition of ‘Hallelujah’. Just yesterday I saw this […]
The Levelling
Not to be confused with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening or James Wan’s The Conjuring, this is Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling. Sorry for the confusioning. Like Raw, this is the story […]
