The Thing (2011)
Immediately before the events of 1982’s The Thing, a much worse version of The Thing took place at the same research station, except with Mary Elizabeth Winstead of Kurt Russell. […]
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Big
13-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) yearns to be big and learns the misery of adulthood when he wakes up as a full-grown George Osborne lookalike (Tom Hanks). Directed by Penny […]
The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter’s The Thing has the same basic premise as The Thing from Another World (a very cold group of researchers discover a very deadly alien life form) but moves […]
The Thing from Another World
Not to be confused with The Thing (1982), The Thing (2011), the Thing from the Fantastic Four or That Thing You Do!, this is the original 1951 adaptation of Who […]
Shirley
Elisabeths Moths plays American author Shirley Jackson as an evil Sarah Millican in this new psychological drama. Shirley is not a biopic but a fictitious four-hander that sees a young […]
The Muppet Movie
The first of many, many cinematic outings shows the Muppets’ humble beginnings, as Kermit goes in search of stardom, picking up his furry friends on the way to Hollywood. Meanwhile […]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
A detective (Bob Hoskins) with a long-held grudge against cartoons, gets drawn into Toontown when popular actor Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer), who stars as himself in cartoon serials, is set […]
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder would have passed most of us by in 2003, coming a few months before South Korean cinema had its international breakthrough with Oldboy. Following Parasite‘s Oscar […]
The Aristocats
I loved Disney’s The Aristocats as a child, though I don’t know if that’s because I loved cats and jazz or if I love cats and jazz because of this […]
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The babysitter (Samara Weaving) is not back in this Netflix sequel to a movie whose sole redeeming feature was Samara Weaving. Two years after thwarting a cabal of Satanists, Cole […]
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