Elektra
Say what you like about the Ben Affleck movie Daredevil (not out loud, obviously) – it did well enough to get a spin-off centred around the hero’s love interest (Jennifer […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Creep (2004)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was still in cinemas when Christopher Smith debuted a much more realistic film about London, cocaine and imprisonment. In a premise worthy of Bridget […]
The French Dispatch
At the French outpost of a small Kansas newspaper, its menagerie of writers recount their most notable stories before the printers stop rolling for good. As with most anthology films […]
Last Night in Soho
It would be easy for cinemagoers watching Edgar Wright’s new feature to think they’ve wandered into Spencer by accident, since it opens with the dedication “For Diana” and eventually becomes […]
Salem’s Lot
Old foes come to New England in a 1979 take on Stephen King’s vampire tale. Originally conceived as a movie, Salem’s Lot was expanded to a 3+ hour TV miniseries […]
Till Death
Gerald’s Game meets Panic Room in Till Death, which sounds like a cash register breaking down but is actually a thriller about a woman (Megan Fox) waking up handcuffed to […]
Little Shop of Horrors
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
Dune: Part One
In the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) takes command of the planet Arrakis with his Bene Gesserit concubine (Rebecca Ferguson), weapons master Gurney Halleck (Josh […]
The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Return of the Living Dead might be a more appropriate title since I have already reviewed this 1985 zombie comedy, but as tends to happen when […]
Halloween Kills
Never outdone, Halloween has joined the slasher space race and followed in Jason X‘s footsteps by sending its killer (or at least the man whose face he wears) into space. […]
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