Thelma & Louise
Two Southern redheads (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) go on the run after shooting a rapist in this 1991 road movie. Remember roads? One of the best films of the ’90s, […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Ocean’s Eleven
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) celebrates his release from prison by robbing three Las Vegas casinos, not including the Trump Casino because there’s presumably no money in it. Ocean’s Eleven is […]
Starship Troopers
Adapted from Robert A. Heinlein’s humans vs bugs novel, Starship Troopers is set in a techno fascist future where the director of Showgirls is still allowed to make movies. Director Paul […]
I’ve Never Seen… Casablanca
If anyone in the future is reading this, we’re all currently stuck indoors due to a virus that’s closed the cinemas (a massive blow to Sonic the Hedgehog fans) and […]
Angels & Demons
A case of antimatter created by the Vatican is stolen from CERN in another case of antihistory so baffling it calls for a specialist. Unfortunately Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and […]
Demons
The great thing about genre is that classics and VHS bargain bin staples are often one and the same. Demons is such a film; a “Spaghetti Splatter” cult favourite about a zombie […]
Arrietty
Studio Ghibli shrinks to Studio Gimli in this 2010 Borrowers adaptation. Ghibli is all about detail, making Mary Norton’s diminutive classic the perfect playground for the anime giant’s miniaturised magic. […]
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams goes undercover as a British nanny in order to see his non-custodial children in Mrs. Doubtfire, a kind of ’90s Hairy Poppins. Where most zany-yet-sentimental flicks of this era fumble […]
Penguin Highway
From the nation that gave us Pingu in the City comes this 2018 anime about a precocious fourth-grader (Kana Kita) investigating a sudden influx of penguins. Waddle they think up […]
Color Out of Space
A meteorite causes paranormal disturbances on a farm in this new horror/Lovecraft/Nicolas Cage movie that they should have called Poultrygeist. Except they couldn’t because a) it’s an alpaca farm and […]
