Chemical Wedding
Written by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, this 2008 sci-fi/horror movie sees a Cambridge professor (Simon Callow) don a virtual reality spacesuit and go Emeritus Psycho when he comes back as […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
A Real Pain
Jewish American cousins David and Benji (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) visit Poland to trace their grandmother’s roots in this buddy comedy/drama. Written and directed by Eisenberg, the semi-autobiographical road […]
Anora
A stripper called Anora (Mikey Madison) marries Vanya her adorer (Mark Eydelshteyn) in this strong awards performer. Sean Baker (The Florida Project) subverts the True Romance-style fantasy about a call […]
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is a 2024 documentary about the coup to overthrow the first Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the United States’ involvement in the Congo Crisis, and […]
The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Nosferatu
Why don’t droids watch vampire movies? Because they’re not-for-R2. Making a Nosferatu movie (as opposed to Dracula) means adapting a film rather than a novel, and therefore requires the recreation […]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Anyone who saw Nosferatu and thought “this would be better in colour and with talking” should seek out this 1979 remake and get their head examined. Werner Herzog’s 1979 revamp […]
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Happy-go-lucky estate agent Hutter (definitely not Harker for legal reasons) is sent to Transylvania in this unauthorised Dracula adaptation from 1922. Changing the names and moving the bloodsucking action from Whitby to […]
Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
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