The Long Walk
50 teenage boys volunteer for a walking tournament where they are shot if they drop below 3 miles per hour, in this carbon-neutral version of Speed. Based on a 1979 […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Emma
Gwyneth Paltrow swaps the incense for incest in this 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about a spoiled white woman spouting bad lifestyle advice and lauding her privilege over everyone […]
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Following the success of its Fear Street movies set in the ’70s and ’90s, Netflix fills a gap in the market and sets a horror film in the 1980s. Finally. […]
Entrapment
Attempting to track down a stolen Rembrandt, young insurance investigator Gin (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has her head turned by another artefact when she falls for elderly art thief Mac (Sean Connery), […]
Saw IV
Despite being beheaded in the previous instalment, John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is back to prove having a brain was never a prerequisite to making a Saw film. Following in the […]
Eyes Without a Face
A surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) kidnaps young women in order to perform a face transplant on his disfigured daughter Christiane (Édith Scob), in this 1960 French horror film they should have […]
All About My Mother
A nun, an actress and a sex worker walk into a Barcelona in All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning drama from 1999. Another Spanish twist on his beloved Old […]
Devil
Five strangers are trapped in a lift where one of them is the actual Devil, in this M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller they should have called Hellevator. Shyamalan opted not to […]
The Hating Game
Following a merger between their two firms, short publishing assistant Lucy (Lucy Hale) falls for her tall work rival Josh (Austin Stowell) in this Christmas rom-com they should have called […]
Flight Risk
The Accountant meets Plane in this Mel Gibson-directed thriller about an accountant on a plane. In a rare title role, Topher Grace is Flight Risk AKA Winston, an accountant turned […]
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