Beetlejuice
Not to be confused with the Simpsons episode The Bart of War, in which Bart and Milhouse consume Beatles-inspired soda drinks (John Lemon, Paul McIced Tea, Orange Harrison and Mango […]
I’ve never seen…Cabaret
Somehow Cabaret has always passed me by – in fact I typically confuse it with Chicago, which I’ve also never seen. But after 26 years of ignorance, Dan was kind […]
Downsizing
Matt “but what about the men who aren’t sexual predators” Damon shrinks in Downsizing, conspicuously absent from an awards season that’s already honoured The Greatest Showman for one of its songs. […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
New comedy/drama/crime flick Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best Woody Harrelson film with an unwieldy title since War for the Planet of the Apes. Frances McDormand gives another powerhouse performance as […]
Magic
Someone’s dummy starts to take over their life in Magic: The Melania Trump Story. Despite appearances, 1978’s Magic is not a haunted doll movie (Annabelle, The Boy, that episode of Buffy) but […]
The Florida Project
Already generating Oscar buzz, The Florida Project joins the ranks of great movies based in motels, alongside Psycho, Memento, Bug and Memento. While the motel-oriented Lady in the Water is set inside M. Night […]
Jumanji
As Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle stampedes the box office, let’s look back on the 1995 original, in which typically obnoxious Robin Williams character Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) discovers the worst board […]
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
The sequel no one wanted to a film no one liked, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle combines the pointless special effects of Jumanji with the generic action of a Dwayne ‘The […]
Ju-on: The Grudge
This is the Japanese chiller from 2002 as opposed to the Sarah Michelle Gellar remake which I refuse to watch for the same reasons I won’t see the Naomi Watts Ring remake. I’m […]
The Greatest Showman
Hugh Jackman flexes his Broadway muscles as 19th-century circus impresario P. T. Barnum in this new musical executive-produced by Logan director James Mangold. And although Logan features throats ripped out by claws, it’s […]
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