Lady in the Water
My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film. — M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Across 110th Street
Three men steal $300,000 from the mob in this blaxploitation classic from 1972. My main complaint with Black Mama, White Mama (co-written by Jonathan Demme, who sadly passed away yesterday) was that […]
West Side Story
Two basketball teams, both alike in dignity / in fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene. So doesn’t begin Sondheim and Bernstein’s West Side Story. Set in New York City, 1957, this […]
Left Behind
Named after Nicolas Cage’s career, Left Behind is a Christian thriller set during the rapture. Remember the rapture? It was all the rage back in 1981, 1994, 2011 and various other dates for which […]
Amadeus
We look back on 1984’s Amadeus to commemorate the recent loss of its writer Peter Shaffer (and because the DVD was cheap in Sainsbury’s). This octuple-Oscar-winning drama tells the story of […]
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Baby is one of those titles that tells you everything you need to know, like The Birds or Frankenhooker. Three New Yorkers (Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson) find their […]
Raw
This French-Belgian horror-drama is the story of a life-long vegetarian studying at what can only be described as The Stanley Kubrick School for Veterinary Science. Raw caused a literal splash on the festival […]
Free Fire
Free Fire is a new shoot ’em up from the prolific, terrific and often horrific Ben Wheatley. Set in 1978, the movie concerns an arms deal that goes south faster […]
Personal Shopper
Frown with limbs Kristen Stewart plays Maureen, a personal shopper who’s also a medium. That’s not her clothing size, I mean she can speak to the dead. Her recently deceased twin brother […]
Barbarella
Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is on a 41st century mission to stop the evil scientist Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea). Yes, this is where Duran Duran got their name. And possibly their […]
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