Girlhood
This is a French drama about a teenage girl named Marieme (Karidja Touré), who lives in a deprived Parisian neighbourhood. With a difficult home life and no real opportunities, she […]
Licence to Kill
Timothy Dalton makes his second and final appearance as James Bond in Licence to Kill, which is English for License to Kill. Dalton’s Bond is a more serious character than […]
Big Game
A 13 year old Finnish boy, Oskari (Onni Tommila), is sent into the forest to prove his hunting prowess as a test of his manhood. However, he finds a bigger prize […]
Downfall
Today marks 70 years since Nazi Germany admitted defeat in World War Two and surrendered unconditionally to the allies. Downfall documents the final days of the Third Reich inside Hitler’s […]
Doomsday
As the polls close on today’s tedious general election, let’s take a look at an equally unexciting movie – Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. I’m a big Neil Marshall fan – Dog […]
Unfriended
A group Skype session is rudely interrupted by a cyber-psycho in Unfriended, a found footage film for the Facebook generation. Let’s call it The Antisocial Network. Eyes Without a Facebook […]
The Good Lie
This is the story of a group of children whose tribe in Sudan is torn apart by war. With the village adults murdered by soldiers, the children are forced to walk […]
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a stupid name for a great film. Plot-wise, the less you know the better (to quote the name of a DJ Shadow album). So vaguely speaking, it’s about […]
Force Majeure
Ski resorts are ripe screen territory, having set the scene for Swiss drama Sister by Ursula Meier (no relation – probably), British rom-com Chalet Girl (never seen it) and the […]
It Follows
After the tedious stupidity of John Wick, here’s another piece of trash that’s inexplicably impressed critics; new(ish) horror film It Follows – not to be mixed up with In Fear, as I did, […]
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