Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Is there a series with more ironic subtitles than Friday the 13th? The Final Chapter was only the fourth instalment, followed by A New Beginning which it wasn’t, because the next film […]
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Houdini
Tony Curtis stars as the legendary magician and escapologist whose most remarkable feat is being the only Victorian-era entertainer to remain a household name into the 21st century. This biopic […]
Wittgenstein
Derek Jarman’s penultimate film, Wittgenstein presents the life and ideas of the great 20th-century philosopher from Vienna. It means nothing to Midge Ure but who asked him? Like Caravaggio, this […]
Stalker
In an post-apocalyptic future, a secret location known only as The Room promises happiness to those who find it. But the only way to get there is to hire a […]
The Sisters Brothers
The Goss brothers meets the Coen brothers in this Western about bickering siblings (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) chasing another pair of men (Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal) for […]
I, Robot
Before iPods, iPlayer and I, Daniel Blake (but after I, Claudius) came I, Robot, based on the Isaac Asimov book of the same name. In the ludicrously near future (2035) […]
Married to the Mob
A Mafia wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) is tired of her life with professional mobster Frank “The Cucumber” De Marco (Alec Baldwin). Her furniture is stolen, there are guns lying around the […]
Missing Link
Hugh Jackman leaves Victorian London to prove the existence of Bigfoot in Missing Link, AKA The Greatest Abominable Snowman. The missing link in this case (apart from the dearth of […]
Gone Baby Gone
When a young child goes missing, her aunt and uncle (Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver) reach out to a private investigator, Patrick (Casey Affleck), to help find her. This is an impeccably […]
The Princess Bride
From the writer-director-duo behind Misery comes another film about a bedridden character (Fred Savage), like Misery for children (not in a maths sense). Like Annie Wilkes, the boy’s grandfather (Peter […]
Screen Goblin 