Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Actress Pepa Marcos (Carmen Maura) tries to track down her flighty lover (Fernando Guillén) in Pedro Almodóvar’s tall glass of crazy from 1988. We meet the theatrical characters at work […]
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
A musician (Tom Basden) arrives on a remote island to play an exclusive gig, only to find his millionaire host (Tim Key) may have used some poetic licence. Essentially a […]
Housebound
A woman under house arrest begins to suspect her family home is haunted in this 2014 New Zealand horror/comedy they should have called Rear ASBO. Available on iPlayer, Housebound draws […]
Arachnophobia
After moving from San Francisco to a small-town barnhouse, an arachnophobic doctor (Jeff Daniels) gets a house call from a deadly spider that spawns in his wine cellar, turning his […]
Heart Eyes
Heart Eyes is a Valentine’s Day-themed horror/comedy about a burgeoning couple (Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding) who think they’re in a bad rom-com only to discover they’re in a terrible […]
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 […]
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 […]
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