Killing Gunther
This is a 2017 mockumentary about a team of assassins trying to take down the world’s greatest hitman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) – not a missing episode of Friends. Because that would […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Unforgiven
A frontier family must defend their home after their adopted sister (Audrey Hepburn) is revealed to have been stolen from a Native American tribe in 1960’s The Unforgiven, a kind […]
That Thing You Do!
A rare case of a good film with an exclamation mark in the title, That Thing You Do! is the directorial debut of Turner & Hooch himself, Tom Hanks. Essentially Great […]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is one of the world’s clumsiest titles, not least because the movie has nothing to do with water so it’s not even a pun. This […]
Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
It Chapter Two
The It crowd is back (the coulrophobic rather than transphobic one) to battle an evil clown in It Chapter Two, or The Continued Decline of James McAvoy. 27 years after […]
Broadway Danny Rose
It’s hard to review a Woody Allen movie in the current climate without it seeming like we’re trying to make a point, so please rest assured there is no point. […]
Inna de Yard
From the director of Hannibal Rising comes another movie about going back to one’s roots, in this case a reggae supergroup (including Ken Boothe, Kiddus I, Judy Mowatt, Winston McAnuff […]
Don’t Look Now
First released in 1973 to give an entire generation a phobia of red raincoats, Don’t Look Now is restored in all its squirmy, permy glory. Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short […]
FrightFest 20: A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
It’s grim up north(ern Ireland) in Abner Pastoll’s thriller about young widowed mother Sarah (Sarah Bolger) whose home is invaded by a drug dealer (Andrew Simpson). This Belgian-Northern Irish co-production […]
