Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
The only Friday the 13th film to share its subtitle with a Muppet movie, 1989’s Jason Takes Manhattan opens with a canoodling couple boating on Crystal Lake. Just as the horny […]
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Toy Story 4
Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen) are back in this forkuel following Andy’s toys as they’re passed on to Alita: Battle Angel. The Toy Story trilogy concluded pretty perfectly […]
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ahead of September’s new Rambo movie (Rambo Number 5?) let’s look back on this 1985 sequel and ultraviolent Coca-Cola advert. Not so much a film as a catalogue of shots […]
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
As if to confirm the pointlessness of these Halloween sequels, they were officially erased by last year’s direct follow-up to the original, and that sequel was inexplicably also called Halloween. […]
Assault on Precinct 13
A gang storms an LA police station in this 1976 actioner, the fantastic first half-hour of which cooks up a sizzling street tension, before a little girl (Kim Richards) buys […]
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
After the diminishing returns of the previous few Friday the 13th movies, the producers sought to reinvigorate the series by pitching Freddy vs. Jason in order to capitalise on the rival […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
The Threepenny Opera
This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner. The […]
Bitter Wheat
John Malkovich plays a Donald Trump/Harvey Weinstein hybrid in Bitter Wheat, a new play written and directed by David Mamet on at London’s Garrick Theatre until 1st September. This story […]
Ma
New stalker movie Ma joins the ranks of horror films that sound like animal noises, alongside Raw and Scream (if you’ve ever heard foxes having sex). Octavia Spencer gives a Masterclass as […]
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