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 […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
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 […]
Escape Room(s)
Studios scrambling to cash in on the latest craze has produced so many escape room-themed movies that working out which one you’re watching is a puzzle in itself. Escape Room […]
The Call
Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
I always assumed that catching bits of Naked Jungle would be the TV memory that scarred me to the day I gratefully died, until I sat through The People v. […]
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