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 […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
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 […]
Great Expectations
Pip’s life gets pepped after he pops into a graveyard in David Lean’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ penultimate novel. Watching it now, Pip’s story is less than revelatory and perhaps […]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
The bastardisation of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s masterpiece continues with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, even though he already returned in the first film. Released and set […]
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is jonesing for a man so badly that she’s not prepared to wait for one who’s actually nice to her. This 2001 rom-com is as lazy as […]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The world’s most infamous reptile is back for round two as team Monarch tags him in. Monarch in this case is a crypto-zoological organisation with the same logo as Extinction […]
The Death of Dick Long
Pink Freud are finishing up band practice one night when one of them asks: “Y’all wanna get weird?” And then it does. The amusingly titled The Death of Dick Long […]
Predators
This 2010 sci-fi sequel follows another band of humans (including Adrien Brody, Mahershala Ali and Topher Grace) who find themselves hunted by Predators, like an inverted version of the episode […]
Phantasm
A hooded dwarf. A guitar-playing ice cream man. A shapeshifting mortician. But enough about the Brexit Party MEPs; let’s talk Phantasm. This 1979 cult horror is written, directed, produced, edited […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
