The Changeling
Not to be confused with Middleton’s Changeling (1998) or Changeling (2008), The Changeling (1980) is a chiller about a man named John (George C. Scott) haunted by the death of […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Jimmie Fails (Jimmie Fails) and his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors) start squatting in Jimmie’s childhood home, gentrified out of affordability by an influx of Google buses. Or tax dodgems […]
Creature from the Black Lagoon
This Universal creature feature from 1954 follows a marine biology expedition to the Amazon where the titular merman does to the crew what The Mummy did to the Dark Universe. […]
Zombieland: Double Tap
The poster for Zombieland: Double Tap boasts (or rather threatens) “from the director of Venom and the writer of Deadpool.” Personally I’d have gone with “from the producer of Gilmore Girls.” […]
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
There are certain characters you wouldn’t dream of sending into space (Sister Mary Clarence, James Bond) and others for whom it makes a strange kind of sense. It worked for […]
The Addams Family (2019)
Not content with having skinned Garfield, shelled Peanuts and reimagined Calvin and Hobbes as Hobbs and Shaw, Hollywood sets its hungry gaze on The Addams Family. This animated Addams outing sees the family […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Jesse Pinkman’s (Aaron Paul) life goes from Breaking Bad to breaking worse in this feature-length follow-up that rivals The Angry Birds Movie 2 in terms of missing the boat. If you […]
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Stanley Nelson’s new documentary explores the life and works of Miles Davis, his musical contributions and various relationships. They didn’t call him ‘the man with the horn’ for nothing. Inevitably […]
Predator
The horrifying story of a rescue team attacked in Central America, Predator is essentially a jungle-based version of Alien, although that’s no reason to try to combine the two franchises […]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
The release of the Terrance and Phillip movie leads to a war with Canada after Kyle’s mum accuses the nation of corrupting America’s children. In 1999 South Park was only […]
