50 Shades of Grey
A student (Dakota Johnson) falls for a wealthy businessman (Jamie Dornan) with a fetish for spanking women with unflattering fringes. Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2015 adaptation of E. L. James’ bestseller is […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
The Purge
James DeMonaco’s 2013 home invasion flick introduces the eponymous policy, whereby all crime is legal for one night each year; a policy that has eradicated unemployment and poverty for reasons […]
Paddington 2
Paddington (Ben Whishaw) ends up a bear behind bars after falsely being caught red-hatted stealing an antique from an irritating Jim Broadbent. This 2017 sequel bearnefits from Wes Anderson visuals […]
I’ve Never Seen… Paddington
10 years since the release of Paddington, it seems everyone has seen the pro-immigration bear movie except us and successive British governments. Paul King’s caniform classic follows a marmalade-loving bear […]
A December Bride
As today is Halloween, and most reviews on here are horror films, it is time for something truly scary: a Hallmark Christmas flick about an interior designer. This 2016 romance […]
The Columnist
A columnist (Katja Herbers) takes revenge on her Twitter trolls in the 2019 Dutch dark comedy they should have called Doom Scroll. Ivo van Aart keeps the satire straight and […]
Terrifier
When two friends (Jenna Kanell and Catherine Corcoran) encounter a silent clown about town (David Howard Thornton) on their way home from a party, their Halloween night quickly goes from Pennywise […]
Shin Godzilla
The Japanese government is thrown into a tailspin when Godzilla emerges from the ocean depths and starts trampling Tokyo, which had presumably only just been rebuilt from the last time […]
A Netflix for Christmas
Despite having once co-created a Hallmark movie generator, I had never actually seen one until this ill-advised double-bill – and I possibly still haven’t as the provenance of these festive […]
Get Out
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family and experiences the worst cigarette detox this side of Shane in Survivor 12. Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut proves he’s the […]
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