The Villainess
As far as opening action sequences go, South Korean actioner The Villainess might just have the best: a first-person, single-take fight through corridors packed with scores of assailants, like Oldboy meets […]
Tag Archives: 2017
Anna and the Apocalypse
An all-singing, all-shuffling ensemble deliver a pandemic in the key of George A. Romero in this 2017 zombie musical that one might call Song of the Dead. The singalong story […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Loving Vincent
Armand (Douglas Booth), the son of Vincent Van Gogh’s postman (Chris O’Dowd) is asked to deliver one final, posthumous letter to Vincent’s beloved brother Theo. After hearing Theo has also […]
The Milk System
Documentarian Andreas Pichler, who grew up on a dairy farm, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades. Through interviews with farmers and industry experts he looks at […]
Wonder Woman
Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is an Amazonian warrior princess on the remote Greek island of Kalokairi, where she’s trained to her Amazon prime in a society of women who all […]
Killing Gunther
This is a 2017 mockumentary about a team of assassins trying to take down the world’s greatest hitman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) – not a missing episode of Friends. Because that would […]
The Dark Tower
A boy, Jake (Tom Taylor) has strange visions of another world, where a dark tower keeps darkness at bay (…except its own). When he finds his way there he meets […]
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