The Last Stand
This is the 2013 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, not the X-Men film with which it shares a name and magnet-based prison van escape sequence. Arnie’s post-gubernatorial comeback has a few key ingredients […]
Tag Archives: 2013
Krampus: The Christmas Devil
Santa and his brother Krampus team up to ruin Christmas, Band Aid style. Originally released in 2013 but repackaged 2 years later for the sake of tricking people wanting to […]
Snowpiercer
Chris Evans stars in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi set on a train that never stops running. Told you it was sci-fi. This 2013 tracktion movie follows the revolutionary lower-class tail-section passengers […]
The Stranger by the Lake
Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), a regular at a gay cruising site in France, falls for a dangerous and mysterious man (Christophe Paou) he encounters by the lakeside. Set entirely on a […]
Frozen
I finally set out to watch the phenomenon and biggest-grossing film of 2013 when stuck for 11 hours on a plane, but it’s actually not a very good plane movie. […]
Top of the Flops 4: R.I.P.D.
The Rest in Peace Department is responsible for hunting down dead souls that refuse to leave the mortal realm. It’s staffed by dead cops from a range of times and […]
Top of the Flops 3: The Lone Ranger
In a big screen adaptation of the classic TV series, Armie Hammer plays the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp plays his friend Tonto, a Native American stereotype. The stereotyping of Tonto […]
Nymphomaniac Volumes I and II
Lars Von Trier once again blurs the line between film and endurance test in this two-parter – the most unpleasant pair since the Kray twins. It follows Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) […]
Carrie (2013)
I recently watched the Carrie remake. I didn’t pay, I hasten to add. It just popped up on Netflix. While I could talk about how mediocre it was, how unconvincing […]
Thor: The Dark World
Since the first film, Loki has formed an alliance with aliens and invaded earth. The Asgardians have fixed the thing that lets them fly through space, which Thor has used […]
