The Passion of the Christ
As it’s Halloween, we take a look at The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s 2004 retelling of the crucifixion story. This Christian propaganda horror movie consists 30 minutes of set-up, […]
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Friday Night Lights
Having recently watched all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights in what I can only assume is record time, I went back to the 2004 movie that predicated this excellent TV show. This […]
Despicable Me
Incompetent super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the Moon, in order to prove his criminal mastermind credentials to his evil peers and disparaging mother. Although it uses ideas familiar from Pixar’s The Incredibles and Joss […]
I, Daniel Blake
British realism stalwarts Ken Loach and Paul Laverty reunite for I, Daniel Blake, a forceful, timely drama about a carpenter (Dave Johns) deemed “fit for work” following a heart attack, despite contradictory warnings from his […]
Blood Father
I remember hearing a story about one of Mel Gibson’s parenting tactics. He’d put dummy heads (from film sets) on spikes, and when his daughter’s boyfriends came to pick her up, he’d […]
The Crappening
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening opens with promise. Mass suicides mysteriously occur across the East Coast. Builders fall from scaffolding en masse like 100 Madonnas at the Brits. New Yorkers in Central Park suddenly stop […]
My Scientology Movie
Documentarian and falsetto singer Louis Theroux takes to the big screen with this investigation into the Church of Scientology. We’re reviewing this documentary between us in order to confuse the squirrel-busters. An […]
Caddyshack
This 1980 comedy is set at an exclusive golf club and stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and a gopher. Caddyshack makes occasional hints towards a plot but veers wildly off course, opting instead for a series […]
The Girl on the Train
The year that cinema forgot continues with The Girl on the Train, based on Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel. A divorced woman (Emily Blunt), drunk and depressed, becomes obsessed with a […]
The Conformist
Written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist is the story of a weak-willed fascist spy (Jean-Louis Trintignant) obsessed with normality and desperate to belong. The only other Bertolucci film I’ve seen […]
