Psycho III
Shortly after the events of Psycho II, Norman (Anthony Perkins) is still having mummy issues. With his motel now busier than ever, a young ex-nun arrives, who has fled her convent […]
Tag Archives: 1980s
Psycho II
It’s 20 years since Norman (Anthony Perkins) was committed to an institution after carrying out a shower-based bloodbath. Now sane, he is released against the wishes of Lila Loomis (Vera […]
The Brother From Another Planet
This blaxploitation sci fi asks what would happen if an alien arrived who looked like a black man and instead of landing in a blaze of media to speak to […]
Child’s Play (1988)
If you’re looking for the Sidney Lumet film about an outbreak of violence in a strict Catholic school, see yesterday. This is the story of a doll which becomes possessed […]
Top Gun
Tom Cruise plays “Maverick”, the best pilot in the Navy. Wait… the Navy? Surely you mean the Air Force. No, it’s definitely the Navy, I checked. Maybe there’s a Cruise connection there […]
Good Morning, Vietnam
Part Vietnam war film, part radio-based comedy, Good Morning, Vietnam is about radio DJ Adrian Cronauer as he becomes successful broadcasting to troops in the 1960s. Much of the film, […]
Is First Blood an anti war film?
First Blood follows John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran searching for one of his old army pals. The people of a small town don’t take kindly to Rambo, however, as the local police arrest […]
Once Upon a Time in America
This is Sergio Leone’s gangster tale of epic proportions which follows a group of friends from their New York childhood in the 1920s through their underworld dealings over the next […]
Brazil
Much in the same way it’s uninteresting to review a film by Hitchcock or Kubrick and describe it as good, it’s equally a statement of the obvious to describe a […]
Strictly Classified Part 1: Nineteen Eighty-Four
With revelations about the NSA’s programme of spying on US citizens earlier this year, we have never been more watched, and the security versus privacy debate has never been more […]
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