Happy Death Day
If you happened to watch Groundhog Day and thought “I wish this was a lame horror film”, then Happy Death Day is the movie for you. This slasher-comedy stars Jessica Rothe as […]
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The Death of Stalin
It’s 1953 in Moscow, and the world’s worst ever secretary, Joseph Stalin, has snuffed it. It’s left to his surviving cabinet – a mixture of the slavishly devoted, cut-throat and […]
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Twenty years on from the original airing of the ground-breaking Brass Eye, a raft of unseen clips that never made it onto the small screen are resurrected on the big […]
Desperately Seeking Susan
Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta Glass, a young woman who’s hung up on Susan (Madonna), a beautiful stranger who organises romantic liaisons through the personals section of a New York newspaper. […]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Matthew Broderick plays Ferris Bueller, an ageing Roger the Dodger who manages to convince his entire community that he’s seriously ill while he actually spends the day out and about […]
The Return of Spinal Tap
Almost a decade on from their infamous North American tour, Spinal Tap are back at the top of their game playing a sellout gig to London’s Royal Albert Hall. The […]
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Samuel L Jackson plays Darius Kincaid, an incarcerated hitman who’s a witness in a war crimes trial in The Hague. When the convoy transporting him is intercepted, Interpol Agent Rousell […]
I’m No Angel
America’s most confident woman returns in I’m No Angel, not to be confused with the Gregg Allman album of the same name. Released 9 months after She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel reunites Mae West […]
Mannequin
The DVD cover of Mannequin boasts that it’s a “CLASSIC 80’S MOVIE” which, aside from the misplaced apostrophe, seems an odd proclamation. Don’t classics tend to speak for themselves? The Godfather packaging […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
