Suspiria (2018)
Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey) is admitted to a West Berlin dance academy run by witches in this 2.5-hour horror remake. Talk about a glutton for punishment… Director Luca […]
Flash Gordon
American football player, hunk and all-round good guy Flash Gordon (Sam J Jones) is rocketed into space by a mad scientist (Topol) to save the earth from imminent alien invasion […]
Escape from New York
Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]
Back to Back to the Future
71% of Americans (they asked 2,201 people) want a Back to the Future reboot, according to a Hollywood Reporter poll probably generated by a studio already making the movie. This is a bad idea […]
Jabberwocky
Terry Gilliam ambitiously attempts to turn Lewis Carrol’s famous nonsense poem (of Alice Through the Looking Glass fame) into a feature film, with not insubstantial embellishment. The film stars Michael […]
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ignoring the 2016 version (you know the one, the feminist reboot that made no attempt to redress the racial imbalance of the original) this is the 1984 Ghostbusters, not to be […]
Tommy
Written by The Who and director Ken Russell, Tommy is a 1975 rock opera (meaning the whole this is sung, or rather yelled) about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion […]
I Called Him Morgan
Not to be confused with My Name is Albert Ayler or He Named Me Malala, I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 documentary about jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen. […]
Goodbye Lenin! and The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
Slaughterhouse Rulez
This is not a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five but the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. A horror-comedy set at an If….-inspired boarding school, Slaughterhouse Rulez is iffy in […]
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