The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
When is a director not a director? And I don’t mean M. Night Shyamalan; I’m talking about films with misleading director credits, such as Poltergeist secretly being directed by Steven […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
Little Monsters
A kindergarten trip to a petting farm is gatecrashed by a zombie outbreak in this Australian zom-com, or perhaps a zoombie movie. You don’t have to be Edgar Wright to […]
WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc
WITCH is a rockumentary which celebrates the rich history and present-day sitch of Zambian rock band WITCH. Rockumentaries have a tendency to conform to type, a consequence of there being […]
The Irishman
This is the story of a mob hit man (Robert De Niro) and his relationships with an elderly crime boss (Joe Pesci) and a charismatic union leader (Al Pacino). Martin […]
The Laundromat
When her husband (James Cromwell) dies in a boat crash, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) goes in search of the compensation she’s owned and discovers a global labyrinth of exotically-based companies […]
The Good Liar
Dodgy codger Roy (Ian McKellen) sees easy prey in wealthy widow Betty (Helen Mirren) when they meet on a dating site for people of advanced years, but will he go […]
Hustlers
Based on a real case from 2008, Hustlers follows a group of New York strippers (including Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Scream Queens‘ Keke Palmer) who withstand the financial crisis by […]
Countdown
Countdown is sadly not a feature based on the Channel 4 game show but a horror movie about an app that tells you how long you have left to live and then […]
Dolemite Is My Name
By this point Snoop Dogg is Netflix’s biggest sub-category, more populous even than hitman comedies or cannabis cookery shows (obviously there is overlap). Between his movie cameos, album appearances and […]
Doctor Sleep
Decades after Jack Torrance showed that all that’s certain in life is death and axes, Danny (now Dan) Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up and drinking heavily to suppress […]
Screen Goblin 