Queen & Slim
While on their first date, Queen and Slim (Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya) are pulled over by a racist cop (Sturgill Simpson). When a struggle ensues they shoot him with […]
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The Lighthouse
Two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) go insane on a tiny island in The Lighthouse, or Brexit: The Movie. Essentially The Shining in a lighthouse (The Brining?), this loose […]
Boney M. at Boisdale
On the day of Britain’s exit from one European institution we went to see another, legendary German hit machine Boney M., credited with bringing steel drums to disco music. With […]
The Innocents
A governess (Deborah Kerr) confronts voices, apparitions, noises and superstitions in 1961’s The Innocents – a much better name for a The Turn of the Screw adaptation than The Turning, […]
Pink Narcissus
As a rent boy (Bobby Kendall) lies bored in his apartment he imagines a series of erotic fantasies, with himself as the central character. Made in the USA just two […]
Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The latest film from Armando Iannucci takes on the semi-autobiographical Dickensian tale, as told by its literary protagonist (Dev Patel). In a whistlestop tour of Copperfield’s life we meet the […]
The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow
Some celebrities use their platform to champion a cause. Jane Fonda was arrested last week for protesting climate change. Blake Lively has devoted 8 years of her life to making […]
The Turning
The world needs another movie about a woman going to a haunted house and nothing happening like it needs another hole in its ozone layer, but here’s one more from […]
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