Barbarian
New horror movie Barbarian sees Tess (Georgina Campbell) arrive at an Airbnb only to find it already occupied, having failed to look it up on Trapadvisor. Zach Cregger’s debut solo […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Menu
A group of wealthy diners head to an exclusive restaurant on a remote island and soon find themselves in the same boat as the viewers: misled by critics. It won’t […]
Prey for the Devil
The Great Exorcism Swindle is alive and well thanks to director Daniel Stamm, whose erroneously titled The Last Exorcism was immediately followed by the Damien Chazelle-penned The Last Exorcism Part […]
Triangle of Sadness
An arms dealer, a communist and an influencer walk onto a yacht, is the joke setup of Ruben Östlund‘s Palme d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness. The film itself is a lot […]
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai’s fifth feature reunites the Hong Kong filmmaker with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, for another dose of slo-mo fast living. This is two stories in one: the first a hitman […]
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
A psychotic gangster and restaurant owner’s (Michael Gambon) nightly gorges leave his long-suffering wife (Helen Mirren) well and truly fed up. Set in a gourmet restaurant over a single week, […]
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are reunited on a craggy island during the Irish Civil War. Still, at least they’re not in fucking Bruges. A similarly purgatorial potency […]
Halloween Ends
Michael Myers transfers his evil powers to a babysitter (Rohan Campbell) who accidentally killed a child in Halloween Ends, AKA Jamie Lee Curtains. These sequels pick the strangest elements of […]
Shiva Baby
A sex worker sits shiva in 2020 comedy Shiva Baby, or to use its gentile title, Newborn at the Jew Mourn. Largely set in one location over 75 minutes in […]
Don’t Worry Darling
Alice (Florence Pugh) is living every woman’s fantasy of being married to Harry Styles in a 1950s idyll, but like Meghan Markle before her, soon finds that marrying Harry comes […]
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