Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
Tag Archives: 2018
Gotti
John Travolta plays the eponymous real-life mob boss in Gotti, very much this decade’s Battlefield Earth. Both films star a mad-haired Travolta, lost millions of dollars, and saw their parent […]
Tomb Raider
The world’s second most famous ass-kicking archaeologist is back, this time heading to Japan in search of her missing father in this reboot starring Alicia Vikander. Alicia Vikander? From The […]
Shoplifters
Shoplifters is a Japanese drama that lost the Foreign Language Oscar to Netflix’s Roma, which Steven Spielberg thinks is a TV movie – bit rich coming from the director of […]
The Breaker Upperers
This New Zealand comedy follows a pair of women (Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami) running a company that breaks up couples – essentially Hitch but, like the way toilets […]
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
All is True
This is the a film about the later years of Shakespeare’s (Kenneth Branagh) life as he deals with the twin tragedies of the death of his son, Hamnet, and the […]
RBG
As often happens, this documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives ahead of a biopic (On the Basis of Sex), where we’ll get to see the same events again […]
Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Bros: After the Screaming Stops
All I knew of ’80s band Bros was that drummer Luke Goss had been in Blade II and Hellboy II, and that this film was apparently the most Brentian documentary since […]
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