Strictly Classified Part 1: Nineteen Eighty-Four
With revelations about the NSA’s programme of spying on US citizens earlier this year, we have never been more watched, and the security versus privacy debate has never been more […]
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Deep Blue Sea
“Shark attack” is a stupid sub genre. If you’re not Jaws (1), you can get lost as far as I’m concerned, and that includes piranhas too. Deep Blue Sea takes […]
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Even if you’re not familiar with Elvira, you may know Simpsons parody Booberella. Elvira is the same character by a different name, but you just can’t beat the original. Originally […]
Rash of Bacon Part 9: What We’ve Learned
After watching a huge number of Kevin Bacon films I have to admit that in spite of all the jibes about that awful advert he’s in, I’m now a Kevin […]
Rash of Bacon Part 6: Footloose
Set in 1984, before the invention of self-awareness, Footloose follows Ren (Kevin Bacon), a big city boy who moves to a small town where dancing is banned. I don’t like […]
Rash of Bacon Part 3: Hollow Man
Hollow Man is a film by the always violent, always absurd Paul Verhoeven of Total Recall and Robocop. Like those films he’s in sci-fi territory again here, but there’s a […]
On iPlayer: Tsotsi
Tsotsi is a 2005 adaptation of the novel of the same name, written and directed by South African Gavin Hood. When Tsotsi (Afrikaans for “thug”) steals a car, he doesn’t realise there’s […]
Blancanieves
What’s this? Another Snow White movie? But we already had Snow White and the Hunstman and Mirror Mirror last year! Make something new already! Not so fast… In what has […]
Only God Forgives
As you may realise from the title, Only God Forgives is a look at the darker side of human nature. It starts out with a Bangkok drug dealer raping and […]
9 Actors who should be in The Expendables 3 but won’t be
No sooner had The Expendables 2 been released than speculation began about who would be in the next one. Nicholas Cage was quickly announced, and a handful of other names have […]
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