On iPlayer: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Available on iPlayer for another four days, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things is a 2019 documentary about a woman with considerably better timing than us. Leslie Woodhead’s film […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
A group of teenagers interrupt a hillbilly fishing trip in this sar-donic slasher from 2010. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil retells a […]
Billie
The dispassionate sensationalism of True Crime continues to seep into sensitive cultural environments in this new Billie Holiday documentary. It starts with ominous text introducing the late journalist Linda Kuehl […]
Gerald’s Game
A kinky couple (Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood) drive to an isolated cabin where he has a heart attack while she’s handcuffed to the bed, in this Netflix adaptation of […]
Hail Satan?
Satanism was huge in the last century (if you believe the Christian right) but now it’s back and better than ever, as revealed in Penny Lane’s 2019 documentary about American […]
The Thing (2011)
Immediately before the events of 1982’s The Thing, a much worse version of The Thing took place at the same research station, except with Mary Elizabeth Winstead of Kurt Russell. […]
The Babysitter
A Netflix movie by McG is a far scarier premise than the resulting tale of a teenager (Judah Lewis) whose babysitter (Samara Weaving) tries to kill him. This 2017 effort […]
Les Misérables (2019)
Not to be confused with that time Russell Crowe lied on his resumé about being able to sing, Les Misérables is a French drama based on a real-life case of police […]
Ocean’s 8
In 2018, Hollywood added “criminal” to women’s list of job prospects, alongside “Ghostbuster“, “Bosley” and “annoying droid“. This gender-swapped reboot sees Danny Ocean’s newly paroled sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) rounding […]
Darlin’
The Cleek clan are back in this sequel to 2011’s The Woman, written and directed by the Woman herself, Pollyanna McIntosh. While technically the third part of a trilogy, like […]
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