The Last Supper
This 1995 dark comedy sees a group of murderous liberals (Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance) inviting conservatives to dinner where poisoned wine is […]
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The Lady Vanishes
In the snowy Bandrikan mountains a group of holiday makers are left stranded in a hotel during an avalanche. It then switches from The Hateful Eight to Murder on the […]
A Simple Favor
Blake Lively turns deadly in Paul Feig’s 2018 incest comedy. And if you’re thinking “but incest isn’t funny,” in this case you’d be right. The incest subplot also has no […]
Let’s Make it Legal
Apparently the title of this film is something to do with marriage, but all I could think of was Palpatine talking to those racist aliens in The Phantom Menace… The […]
Knives Out
Wealthy crime author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his country mansion, his throat cut in an apparent suicide. But private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) suspects foul […]
Bananas
Separating the art from the artist sounds great in theory but there’s something about Woody Allen that makes it difficult in practice, though I can’t quite put my finger on […]
Little Monsters
A kindergarten trip to a petting farm is gatecrashed by a zombie outbreak in this Australian zom-com, or perhaps a zoombie movie. You don’t have to be Edgar Wright to […]
Chicken Run
In the original chick flick, the residents of an egg farm dream of escape from the tyrannical yoke of Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) and her scramble-brained husband. After hatching many […]
The Laundromat
When her husband (James Cromwell) dies in a boat crash, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) goes in search of the compensation she’s owned and discovers a global labyrinth of exotically-based companies […]
On iPlayer: Election
Don’t tell Brenda from Bristol, but Election is on iPlayer. Alexander Payne’s 1999 comedy explores high school teacher Jim McAllister’s (Matthew Broderick) meddling in a student body election after his […]
