Weathering With You
A teenage boy (Kotaro Daigo) runs away to Tokyo and meets a girl who can control the weather (Nana Mori), but soon finds that Cloudbusting is best left to Kate […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Opera
Dario Argento continues his streak of making the world’s best-looking and least-comprehensible horror movies with 1987’s Opera. Based on his experiences directing a failed version of Verdi’s Macbeth, Argento’s giallo proved […]
Junior
From the producer of David Cronenberg… it’s Junior! After the success of Ivan Reitman’s Twins (a title he bought from Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers project), he heard the world clamouring for […]
Murder Party
Before Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) became the Krzysztof Kieślowski of thrillers, he made this micro-budgeter about a parking inspector (Chris Sharp) attending a Halloween party hosted by a […]
Richard Jewell
Clint Eastwood follows up last year’s The Mule with Richard Jewell in a rhyming couplet worthy of his brother, Tim Westwood. The true story of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, Richard […]
1917
Based on his grandfather’s First World War stories, Sam Mendes’ new feature follows two young soldiers (George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) tasked with delivering a vital message behind enemy lines. […]
He Who Dares
Downing Street is under siege in this action movie whose most realistic aspect is how easy it is to get into Number 10. This rip-off of Olympus Has Fallen and […]
Bombshell
Bombshell is a #MeToo movie from the director of Meet the Fockers. Thank you for reading my review. This fictionalised exposé does for the Fox News sexual harassment scandal what The […]
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
When watching Superman III we came up with an idea for a Superman movie where Clark Kent is dating one woman and Superman another, and he keeps walking through the […]
9 to 5
Three office workers (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) take down their sexist boss (Dabney Coleman) in this old-school comedy, ie. one with a plot. This feminist farce has […]
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