Bonnie and Clyde
This 1967 classic tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the Depression-era outlaws with one simple objective: “We rob banks.” Arthur Penn’s movie humanises Bonnie and Clyde without glamorising them. […]
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Psych-Out
Psych-Out is a 1968 psychedelic drama directed by Richard Rush, and Richard rushed to get the movie made in time to cash in on the Summer of Love. The film […]
Frankenstein (1931)
This is the definitive adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel – the one you’ve seen clips of, and the one a million later Frankenstein’s monsters have been modelled on. Created […]
Midnight Run
In this 1988 action/comedy, Robert De Niro plays a bounty hunter, joining the ranks of Boba Fett and that Keira Knightley movie no one saw. Seeing the words “De Niro” […]
Prom Night
Time for another film available for free on YouTube – the sign of a quality movie. Prom Night opens with a group of children playing hide and seek. It’s all […]
Spectre
Daniel Craig stars in this new biopic of Phil Spector. Not really – it’s just another Bond film. In Craig’s fourth outing as 007, our misogynist hero uncovers a sinister organisation […]
Kill Bill vol. 2
The second part of the world’s worst titled film features more random violence, more lazy two-dimensional caricatures and more evidence that Quentin Tarantino got lucky in the 90s. The cultural […]
The Village
Movie companies are seriously hot on copyright infringement, immediately removing from YouTube any content they deem remotely marketable. So when a film is available on YouTube in its entirety, there […]
On iPlayer: Ca$h
Anyone who saw Ocean’s Eleven and thought “If only this was in French” will be pleased to hear that Ca$h is currently on iPlayer. This French caper stars Jean Dujardin (The Artist) as a conman […]
Gothika
This 2003 horror movie is a woeful entry into the moribund scary-ghost-girl sub-genre. In a performance as limp and lifeless as her hair, Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist who’s inexplicably […]
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