It’s What’s Inside
Being John Malkovich meets Bodies Bodies Bodies in this sci-fi/comedy about an awful group of friends who swap bodies because they don’t have brains. 2024 Netflix movie It’s What’s Inside […]
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A Real Pain
Jewish American cousins David and Benji (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) visit Poland to trace their grandmother’s roots in this buddy comedy/drama. Written and directed by Eisenberg, the semi-autobiographical road […]
Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace and Gromit take on beaked diamond thief Feathers McGraw once again in their latest Christmas caper. It’s allmost twenty years since their last feature-length outing, and 31 years since […]
Carry On Doctor
Doctors, nurses and patients run amok in the 15th Carry On film, the series’ equivalent of The Terror of Mechagodzilla. Being largely unfamiliar with the Carry On films, it was […]
The Debuts
This hour-long documentary follows 6 comedians (including Amy Gledhill, Josh Jones and Sikisa) bringing their debut shows to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. Directed by stand-up and filmmaker Stuart Laws […]
The Conference
Municipal employees on a team-building retreat are targeted by a killer in this Swedish horror/comedy they should have called Parks and Mutilation. Patrik Eklund’s satirical slasher plays out like a […]
The Columnist
A columnist (Katja Herbers) takes revenge on her Twitter trolls in the 2019 Dutch dark comedy they should have called Doom Scroll. Ivo van Aart keeps the satire straight and […]
Creepshow
Drawing on the EC Comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero’s 1982 anthology features five tales from the crypt of Stephen King’s coke-addled imagination. Surprisingly timeless in its ’80s renderings […]
Network
A news anchor (Peter Finch) threatens to kill himself on air, but his announcement backfires when he shoots up the ratings. On re-release for director Sidney Lumet’s 100th birthday, Network […]
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