On iPlayer: Good Night, and Good Luck
Set in McCarthy era America, Good Night, and Good Luck is George Clooney’s 2005 drama based on true events – there are no ghosts in it, unless you count the spectre of […]
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Rash of Bacon Part 3: Hollow Man
Hollow Man is a film by the always violent, always absurd Paul Verhoeven of Total Recall and Robocop. Like those films he’s in sci-fi territory again here, but there’s a […]
On iPlayer: Tsotsi
Tsotsi is a 2005 adaptation of the novel of the same name, written and directed by South African Gavin Hood. When Tsotsi (Afrikaans for “thug”) steals a car, he doesn’t realise there’s […]
Blancanieves
What’s this? Another Snow White movie? But we already had Snow White and the Hunstman and Mirror Mirror last year! Make something new already! Not so fast… In what has […]
Only God Forgives
As you may realise from the title, Only God Forgives is a look at the darker side of human nature. It starts out with a Bangkok drug dealer raping and […]
Rash of Bacon Part 2: Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is Sean S. Cunningham’s archetypal slasher from 1980, in which a mystery killer stalks summer camp counsellors, brutalising each of the attractive teenagers – and Kevin Bacon. It’s […]
Rash of Bacon Part 1: Apollo 13
As you regular cinema goers will know, there’s a really annoying Kevin Bacon advert that’s shown before every. Single. Film. It features Bacon reprising various characters for a conversation with […]
Shitter Island
2010 was a big year for Leonardo DiCaprio, playing not one but two psychologically wounded widowers. There was Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster Inception and Martin Scorsese’s mystery thriller Shutter Island. In Shutter Island, DiCaprio […]
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Aha! The long-awaited Alan Partridge movie has landed and it was well worth the wait. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham reunite to bring us a […]
Dirty Pretty Things
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a doctor by trade, but since illegally migrating to the UK he works as a cab driver and a hotel night security officer, living in fear […]
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