Hobson’s Choice
Shoe shop owner Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is intent on marrying off his two younger daughters (Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) while keeping his eldest, Maggie (Brenda de Banzie), to […]
Goodfellas
A bunch of low-level crooks behave terribly for two and a half hours. While the subject matter, title and running time suggests a Godfather-style crime epic, Goodfellas is actually every […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Hairspray (1988)
It’s Baltimore in 1963 and all the local teens are going crazy for the Corny Collins Show which features kids in the area busting their best moves. There’s only one […]
Gotti
John Travolta plays the eponymous real-life mob boss in Gotti, very much this decade’s Battlefield Earth. Both films star a mad-haired Travolta, lost millions of dollars, and saw their parent […]
Rocketman
In this biographical musical from the producer of Gnomeo and Juliet, Taron Egerton takes centre stage as the Rocketman himself, Elton John, not to be confused with Rocket Raccoon or […]
The Wife
They say that behind every great man is a great woman, but The Wife is about a great woman (Glenn Close) who’s stuck behind a mediocre man, namely Joe Castleman […]
No Man of Her Own
In one of four films Barbara Stanwyck made in 1950, she plays a pregnant woman mistaken for the person whose wedding ring she happens to be wearing during a train […]
The Fugitive
Harrison Ford is Richard Kimble, a doctor who’s wrongly accused of murdering his wife, not to be confused with John Kimble, a cop who pretends to be a kindergarten teacher. […]
Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox
1981 Italian nasty Cannibal Ferox (which could be the name of an American news anchor, like Wolf Blitzer) follows an academic (Lorraine De Selle) who heads into the Amazon to […]
