On the Buses
I’ve never witnessed the sitcom adventures of Blakey (Stephen Lewis) in On the Buses, although I have listened to Art Blakey on plenty of buses. And technically I’ve only half-seen […]
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Operation Petticoat
Navy Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits his old submarine, the USS Sea Tiger, as it’s about to be decommissioned. He reminisces about its glory days from his crew’s restoration […]
But I’m a Cheerleader
A cheerleader (Natasha Lyonne) discovers who she is in this ’90s comedy, not to be confused with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jamie Babbit (who would go on to direct Gilmore […]
Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit is set in Nazi Germany towards the end of WWII – the party’s over and some people are still banging on about Jews with their foot stuck in […]
Charade
On a European skiing holiday (why’s it always a skiing holiday?) interpreter Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) encounters a handsome stranger (Cary Grant) before her return to Paris. When she arrives, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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