Survival of the Dead
George A. Romero’s zombie saga takes an unexpectedly Irish turn in this final chapter they should have called St. Patrick’s Day of the Dead. In a first for the franchise, […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome) is 14 going on incessantly about snogging in this 2008 adaptation of the UK’s 127th favourite book. I know I’m not the target audience for this […]
Catwoman
Halle Berry goes from Monster’s Ball to hairball in this piece of shit godawful movie – not my words, but those of one Halle Berry. Released two years after Berry’s […]
Influencer
This 2022 thriller follows an influencer (Emily Tennant) who goes on holiday to Thailand and soon learns to live without her phone. Or food or water. Influencer starts interestingly enough, […]
Speak No Evil
A Danish couple (Morten Burian and Sidsel Siem Koch) meets a Dutch couple (Fedja van Huêt and Karina Smulders) on holiday in Italy. When their new friends invite them to stay […]
An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Matt Smith returns to playing a doctor in this updated version of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, now running at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre – not to be confused with […]
Turning Red
A Chinese-Canadian girl (Rosalie Chiang) turns into a red panda in this 2022 Pixar flick they should have called Mulan Rouge. I had all but given up on Pixar after the […]
American Fiction
This comedy is based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure but renamed American Fiction to sound more like an Oscar movie (and less like an Arnie movie). The story follows Thelonious […]
Final Destination 2
A 25-year-old college student (A. J. Cook) witnesses a traffic collision that turns out to be a premonition (and not just the cast’s careers going up in in flames). After […]
The Holdovers
I watched Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers on the same day as Godzilla Minus One, which seems an incongruous double-bill until you remember Payne co-wrote Jurassic Park III. It also shares […]
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