Rash of Bacon Part 6: Footloose
Set in 1984, before the invention of self-awareness, Footloose follows Ren (Kevin Bacon), a big city boy who moves to a small town where dancing is banned. I don’t like […]
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Kick-Ass 2
In a summer full of identical superhero movies, it’s a relief to see 2010’s Kick-Ass followed up in its uniquely uncompromising style. Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass are back, but she’s starting high school and […]
Rash of Bacon Part 5: Animal House
Fans of that Kevin Bacon advert will be disappointed by his limited screen time in 1978 frat comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House. Set in 1962, Animal House tells the adventures and misdeeds of […]
Rash of Bacon Part 4: Flatliners
Flatliners finally gave us the pairing everyone had been waiting for: Joel Schumacher of Batman and Robin and Kevin Bacon from those Kevin Bacon adverts. Eat your heart out Scorsese and […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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