Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist
London’s Vault Festival includes in its theatre/comedy line-up this wonderfully modern take on a tale as old as A Christmas Carol: a depressed man receives a spiritual visitor who helps […]
Bros: After the Screaming Stops
All I knew of ’80s band Bros was that drummer Luke Goss had been in Blade II and Hellboy II, and that this film was apparently the most Brentian documentary since […]
Alita: Battle Angel
A cyborg (Rosa Salazar) in the slums must compete in a deadly sport to reach the floating city that holds the key to her past in Alita: Battle Angel, AKA Ready […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Happytime Murders‘ Melissa McCarthy asks our forgiveness in this biography of biographer Lee Israel. The woman who put Sean Spicer on the map turns her efforts to a different kind […]
Crucible of the Vampire
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if one spends enough time at the Prince Charles Cinema, one eventually sees Tommy Wiseau. Even so, I didn’t expect to, since I […]
Destroyer
Nicole Kidman plays ruthless detective Clarice Stalin (or something), a deeply damaged woman whose paranoia, as Jay Kay sang, will destroy ‘er. The new film from Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama […]
Three Identical Strangers
Not since Eddie Murphy signed up for the Twins sequel has a film about triplets made as many headlines as Three Identical Strangers. Tim Wardle’s documentary is another case of ‘the […]
One Cut of the Dead
Nominated for 7 Japanese Academy Awards, One Cut of the Dead is a meta zombie comedy whose title presumably works better in Japanese. Taking place on the set of a […]
Bumblebee
Remember the ’80s?? E.T.? The Smiths? Stuff blowing up? It’s all here in Bumblebee, a Transformers prequel in which the conceptually confused robot/alien/bumblebee/VW Beetle (you could call it a hybrid) crash-lands on Earth and is […]
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