Trading Places
This 1983 comedy sees An American Werewolf in London director John Landis trade wolves for Wall Street, or the Philadelphia equivalent. Rocky Road? Loosely based on Mark Twain’s The Prince […]
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A Netflix for Christmas
Despite having once co-created a Hallmark movie generator, I had never actually seen one until this ill-advised double-bill – and I possibly still haven’t as the provenance of these festive […]
The Blackening
Bodies Bodies Bodies meets Bitch Ass in this horror/comedy about the most racist board game since Trump: The Game. The Blackening looks designed to skewer black representation in the horror […]
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A widowed bard (Chris Pine) has to find a relic to resurrect his wife. That is the entire plot of this 2+ hour Dungeons & Dragons movie. Of all the […]
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
One of my favourite novels gets a Christopher Landon-produced (Happy Death Day, Freaky) makeover in this Amazon Original. What could possibly go right? My Best Friend’s Exorcism is a 2022 […]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The world’s silliest-named detective is back! But enough about Enola Holmes 2. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is off on a busman’s holiday in this nonsensical sequel to 2019’s Knives Out, […]
Triangle of Sadness
An arms dealer, a communist and an influencer walk onto a yacht, is the joke setup of Ruben Östlund‘s Palme d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness. The film itself is a lot […]
Shiva Baby
A sex worker sits shiva in 2020 comedy Shiva Baby, or to use its gentile title, Newborn at the Jew Mourn. Largely set in one location over 75 minutes in […]
See How They Run
Looking at the news this past week, you would think the Queen was the only London institution that took up residence in 1952 to entertain tourists with its ritual, scandal […]
Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
