Infernal Affairs
A mob rat and a police mole (Tony Leung and Andy Lau) face off in the 2002 movie subsequently remade as The Wind in the Willows. I mean The Departed. This […]
Deep Fear
Green Room meets The Descent in this French horror flick about 3 friends (Sofia Lesaffre, Victor Meutelet and Kassim Meesters) celebrating their last day in Paris by venturing into the […]
One Life
One Life is the story of Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), who helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia then didn’t bother telling anyone […]
Double Indemnity
An insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) gets more than he bargained for after falling for a housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) in Billy Wilder’s 1944 thriller. Double Indemnity is vintage noir, all shadowy […]
Stop Making Sense
The sight of David Byrne and his massive square suit back on the big screen will come as great relief for Talking Heads fans and bad news for Liz Truss. […]
Land of the Dead
George A. Romero returns to the genre he invented for this 2005 fourquel about a city overrun by zombies and overseen by a plutocrat (Dennis Hopper). The success of 28 […]
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron is supposedly the final film from Hayao Miyazaki, a man who has come out of retirement more times than Rocky Balboa. Set during World War […]
Maestro
Bradley Cooper returns to music-based relationship drama in this biopic of American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Let’s call it A Tar is Born. As both actor and director, Cooper delivers a […]
Gremlins
An economically depressed town is visited by rampaging creatures in the 1984 Christmas classic they should have called It’s a Wonderful Lifeform. All of Billy’s (Zach Galligan) Christmases come at […]
Trading Places
This 1983 comedy sees An American Werewolf in London director John Landis trade wolves for Wall Street, or the Philadelphia equivalent. Rocky Road? Loosely based on Mark Twain’s The Prince […]
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