Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Proving once and for all that mice are more powerful than foxes, Disney today bought 21st Century Fox. I’m not entirely sure of the implications but I gather the Simpsons […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Lifeforce
Based on the novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson, Lifeforce is a 1985 sci-fi horror directed by the late Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and written by Don Jakoby (Evolution) and […]
Blade of the Immortal
An immortal samurai (Takuya Kimura) takes a young girl (Hana Sugisaki) under his wing in Takashi Miike’s 100th film. That’s 11 times as many as Tarantino has made over the […]
Mississippi Burning
This 1988 Oscar-winner recalls a sorry period in Mississippi’s history. Alan Parker’s film is set in 1964, a time when the American president chose not to openly support violent, racist […]
The Buddy Holly Story
The basket of deplorables isn’t exactly teeming with actors, but two fervent Donald Trump fans are Kristy Swanson and Gary Busey, who played Buffy and Buddy (Holly) respectively. There emerges in […]
Gorillaz at the O2
The Caesar of pop Damon Albarn staged his own ape uprising last night at the O2. Gorillaz by Gorillaz was the first album I ever owned, after my dad bought it […]
Grand Piano
Phone Booth goes tone deaf in this 2013 thriller about a concert pianist (Elijah Wood) and a sniper (John Cusack) who threatens to kill him if he gets a single note wrong. Rather than […]
Molly’s Game
Molly’s Game is the directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, proving that he directs as well as he writes. In that his writing here is awful too. Jessica Chastain plays Molly […]
The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist is a new film about the making of the worst movie ever: Batman v Superman. Dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad films”, The Room is a 2003 romantic drama produced, […]
The 6th Day
The 6th Day is set in the near future (“sooner than you think”), when a cloning company called RePet can make genetic copies of your deceased pets so you never […]
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