The Breaker Upperers
This New Zealand comedy follows a pair of women (Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami) running a company that breaks up couples – essentially Hitch but, like the way toilets […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
All I Desire
The premise of 1953 romantic drama All I Desire is almost Showgirls in reverse; Naomi Murdoch (not quite Nomi Malone but close enough) is a faded actress who travels from […]
Sexy Beast
An ex-pat ex-con (Ray Winstone) has his retirement interrupted by his psychotic boss (Ben Kingsley) who arrives in Spain with all the charm and composure of an English person arriving […]
The Kid Who Would Be King
When a bullied schoolboy (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, son of Andy) finds Excalibur on an abandoned building site, it’s up to him and a ragtag group of classmates to thwart the […]
The Crow
The Crow is a comic book adaptation in which a vengeful rockstar (Brandon Lee) gets resurrected, Rolling Stones style. Released in 1994, The Crow is dedicated to its star Brandon […]
Home, I’m Darling
Home I’m Darling is a new play about a husband and wife (Richard Harrington and Katherine Parkinson) living in modern-day Welwyn Garden City as if it’s the 1950s; a couple […]
A Fish Called Wanda
A diamond heist goes wrong in this comedy menagerie of fish, dogs and Pythons. I loved A Fish Called Wanda as a child, so it pains me that this rewatch left […]
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox plays a transformer of sorts in Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s feminist horror/comedy, whose high school succubus plot resembles a combination of the novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold Our Souls by […]
RBG
As often happens, this documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives ahead of a biopic (On the Basis of Sex), where we’ll get to see the same events again […]
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