Misery
Misery turns 25 this year; the perfect flimsy pretext for reviewing this cockadoodie classic. Because it’s Stephen King, the story is about an author, named Paul Sheldon (James Caan). After […]
London Road
Adapted from the stage, London Road is a musical about the “Suffolk Strangler” murders of 2006, using the real words of members of the community. Think Creature Comforts meets the […]
On iPlayer: Quatermass 2
1957 sci-fi Quatermass 2 (AKA Enemy from Space) is available on iPlayer – for the next 7 hours. So get a move on. Hammer’s sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment sees the return of Brian […]
If….
Supposedly (and hilariously) a favourite of David Cameron’s, If…. is a seminal British satire set in a private school. The school itself is suitably grim; all wooden panels and cruelty. […]
Jurassic World
Twenty years after the first Jurassic Park ended in disaster, a new group of incompetents have tried their hand at making it work, a bit like when they kept re-branding […]
Timbuktu
Don’t worry if you’ve not seen Timbuk-one; this is an original drama from Mauritania, about a West African community under the control of Islamic extremists. Based on the brief occupation […]
Danny Collins
Al Pacino plays the titular character, an ageing musician who has a mid-life crisis about 30 years too late when he realises he’s just singing the same songs over and […]
The Dark Knight
There was lots of gushing over this film when it first came up. But not enough, if you ask me, so I’m going to gush about it some more. I’m […]
Hellraiser & Hellbound
What is it with boxes in horror? Mulholland Drive, The Box, Deal or No Deal… But there is none more terrifying than the puzzle box of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser; a […]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
“We’re in the streets of San Francisco looking for a pair of humpback whales.” So says Captain Kirk in a helpfully succinct synopsis of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. […]
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