Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The world’s silliest-named detective is back! But enough about Enola Holmes 2. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is off on a busman’s holiday in this nonsensical sequel to 2019’s Knives Out, […]
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Triangle of Sadness
An arms dealer, a communist and an influencer walk onto a yacht, is the joke setup of Ruben Östlund‘s Palme d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness. The film itself is a lot […]
Shiva Baby
A sex worker sits shiva in 2020 comedy Shiva Baby, or to use its gentile title, Newborn at the Jew Mourn. Largely set in one location over 75 minutes in […]
See How They Run
Looking at the news this past week, you would think the Queen was the only London institution that took up residence in 1952 to entertain tourists with its ritual, scandal […]
Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
Theatre of Blood
Having referenced Theatre of Blood yesterday as an example of homicidal gimmickry, lend me your ears as we revive this comedy of terrors. Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) throws […]
The Devil Wears Prada
Continuing our accidental series of devil movies (and avoiding such titles as Devil’s Breath and The Devil’s Candy), The Devil Wears Prada follows a fresh-faced journalist (Anne Hathaway) starting work […]
The Witches of Eastwick
Even in the wild filmography of Australian director George Miller (helmsman of the Mad Max, Babe and Happy Feet franchises), his 1987 comedy The Witches of Eastwick is something of […]
The Royal Tenenbaums
After absentee patriarch Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) announces he has just six weeks to live, his dysfunctional family of former child prodigies and washed-up overachievers reconnects against their better judgement. […]
Michael Legge: Strawberries to Pigs
Strawberries to Pigs is the first book from dog walker, vegan and stand-up comedian who refuses to let psoriasis or a crippling fear of microphones stand in his way, Michael […]
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