Force Majeure
Ski resorts are ripe screen territory, having set the scene for Swiss drama Sister by Ursula Meier (no relation – probably), British rom-com Chalet Girl (never seen it) and the […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
It Follows
After the tedious stupidity of John Wick, here’s another piece of trash that’s inexplicably impressed critics; new(ish) horror film It Follows – not to be mixed up with In Fear, as I did, […]
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film, directed by filmmaker, birdwatcher and George Carlin lookalike Wes Craven. Bill Pullman plays an anthropologist sent by a pharmaceutical company to […]
Black Mama, White Mama
When a pair of bickering prisoners (Pam Grier and Margaret Markov) make their escape, they end up on the run – but they’re handcuffed to one another. Resentful of each […]
John Wick
In the latest straight-to-DVD action movie to somehow wind up in cinemas, Keanu Reeves plays John Wick – a retired hitman with a classic car, a cute puppy and a […]
Wild Tales
Argentina’s entry for 2014’s foreign language Oscar was portmanteau movie Wild Tales, or Relatos salvajes if you’re Spanish or pretentious. Wild Tales comprises six short stories, featuring a disgruntled explosives […]
Great Balls of Fire!
Films with exclamation marks in their title are generally to be approached with caution, whether its ABBA musical Mamma Mia! or Stallone comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Jerry […]
Focus
Veteran con artist Nicky (Will Smith) takes small-time hustler Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing, in this crime caper with a twist (that Will Smith left his kids at home this […]
The Sting
Paul Newman and Robert Redford execute the perfect long con in George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper. Nothing to do with the boring musician of the same name, The Sting reunites the […]
Inherent Vice
Chinatown meets China White in Paul Thomas Anderson’s druggy detective mystery – a stonoir, if you will. Inherent Vice is set in 1970s Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War, the Manson Family murders […]
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