Jabberwocky
Terry Gilliam ambitiously attempts to turn Lewis Carrol’s famous nonsense poem (of Alice Through the Looking Glass fame) into a feature film, with not insubstantial embellishment. The film stars Michael […]
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Ghostbusters (1984)
Ignoring the 2016 version (you know the one, the feminist reboot that made no attempt to redress the racial imbalance of the original) this is the 1984 Ghostbusters, not to be […]
Goodbye Lenin! and The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
Slaughterhouse Rulez
This is not a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five but the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. A horror-comedy set at an If….-inspired boarding school, Slaughterhouse Rulez is iffy in […]
Six Days, Seven Nights
Alien vs. Predator. Freddy vs. Jason. Stallone vs. De Niro. Hollywood loves to pit its icons against each other in the name of “crossover” entertainment, ie. entertainment that crosses over […]
Easy A
There’s a long tradition of movies that start with a lie that spins out of control, from 1961’s The Children’s Hour (my teachers are lesbians!) to this year’s Yardie (I […]
Hurricane Bianca 2: From Russia With Hate
Science teacher Richard (Roy Haylock) is happily working in his Texas high school as drag queen alter ego Bianca del Rio. But his old enemy, local homophobe Debora Ward (Rachel […]
Re-Animator
Today we look back on Re-Animator to celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday; a writer whose ideas still echo loudly around the horror genre and certain parts of the Labour Party. Jeffrey […]
Muriel’s Wedding
Toni Colette is Muriel, a down-beaten young woman who fills the hole in her life with ABBA and dreams of the perfect wedding in her dead-end hometown of Porpoise Spit. Along […]
Best in Show
From Spinal Tap‘s Christopher Guest, Best in Show applies the talents of the legendary mockumentarian to the self-evidently funny world of dog competitions. Canine-based hilarity ensues. The film follows several […]
