The Haunting
Guilt-ridden Eleanor (Julie Harris) is summoned to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator and serial mansplainer (Richard Johnson) in this 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill […]
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The Farewell
Lula Wang’s The Farewell concerns a Chinese-American family keeping its matriarch’s terminal illness a secret from her, like Goodbye Lenin but set in the real world. “Based on an actual […]
Jason X
Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) goes to space in this tenth Friday the 13th flick from 2001, which they should have called Jason and the Astronauts. Sending your characters into space […]
True Lies
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life as a dull husband and super spy in 1994’s True Lies, which turned out to be truer than anyone knew in light […]
Judy
Renée Zellweger continues her campaign against London as Judy Garland, whose struggles with substance abuse and custody battles bring her to England in 1969, in the feelbad romp of the […]
Look Back in Anger
Richard Burton plays archetypal angry young man Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, from which Oasis derived a song title and much of their behaviour. Adapted from John Osborne’s […]
Fist of Fury
In his second kung fu movie, Bruce Lee seeks retribution for the death of his master (based on the real Huo Yuanjia) and humiliation at the hands of Japanese fighters, […]
Predator 2
Released in 1990 but set in 1997 for no discernible reason, Predator 2 follows an LAPD officer (Danny Glover) staking out a turf war between rival drug cartels. And occasionally […]
Rambo: Last Blood
This week sees the release of two old people movies: Downton Abbey and Rambo: Last Blood AKA Rambo Number 5. 11 years after his last bloodbath, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Released a whole 4 years after Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is yet another misleading title since a) he doesn’t and b) it isn’t. From the […]
