The Hating Game
Following a merger between their two firms, short publishing assistant Lucy (Lucy Hale) falls for her tall work rival Josh (Austin Stowell) in this Christmas rom-com they should have called […]
Tag Archives: 2021
Old
Holidaymakers with various medical conditions head to a luxury resort and wind up stranded on a beach (and film) that accelerates the ageing process. Known colloquially as The Beach That […]
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The sequel to one of the many escape room-themed thrillers that came out between 2017 and 2019, Sony’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is not to be confused with Taskmaster: […]
A Netflix for Christmas
Despite having once co-created a Hallmark movie generator, I had never actually seen one until this ill-advised double-bill – and I possibly still haven’t as the provenance of these festive […]
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh writes, directs and produces this Oscar-losing drama about a boy named Buddy (Jude Hill) navigating a fraught home and warring community in Belfast, 1969. Let’s call it This […]
Nightmare Alley
Bradley Cooper stars in this remake about a carnival drifter turned psychic grifter who cons the wealthy elite into a baffling Best Picture nomination. Watching a Guillermo del Toro movie […]
Lamb
Noomi had a little lamb in this Icelandic folk horror tale of a farming couple (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) raising a sheep as their own. The debut feature […]
Licorice Pizza
This week saw the passing of Peter Bogdanovich, whose 1971 masterpiece The Last Picture Show is one of many reference points in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Licorice Pizza. Just to explain […]
The Matrix: Repetitions
Twenty-to-sixty years after Neo and Trinity (Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss) saved the human race from cyber-imprisonment, the Matrix is still everywhere, the human race is still enslaved, and the […]
Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Just when we had abandoned all hope of getting a decent slasher flick this year, our last-minute saviour comes along in the most unexpected of places: a South African-produced SyFy […]
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