Bill & Ted Face the Music
It’s 2020 and the world is ending. Also there’s a new Bill & Ted movie out. 29 years after their Battle of the Bands triumph, the Wyld Stallyns (Alex Winter […]
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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are back in this 1991 sequel, this time facing their evil robot doppelgängers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves). Bogus Journey swaps the […]
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
As the Wyld Stallyns gallop back into (a handful of) cinemas, we look back on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure from 1989. Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon’s cult classic follows Bill […]
The Babysitter
A Netflix movie by McG is a far scarier premise than the resulting tale of a teenager (Judah Lewis) whose babysitter (Samara Weaving) tries to kill him. This 2017 effort […]
Rocks
Set in Hackney but far from hackneyed, Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a British-Nigerian teenager whose mother makes like a rock and splits. This British drama is pitched somewhere between […]
Les Misérables (2019)
Not to be confused with that time Russell Crowe lied on his resumé about being able to sing, Les Misérables is a French drama based on a real-life case of police […]
Ocean’s 8
In 2018, Hollywood added “criminal” to women’s list of job prospects, alongside “Ghostbuster“, “Bosley” and “annoying droid“. This gender-swapped reboot sees Danny Ocean’s newly paroled sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) rounding […]
Candyman
We reviewed horror classic Candyman some 12 years ago back in 2015, but if they’re allowed to reboot it this year then I too should be allowed to try again. […]
Ponyo
Newly reopened cinemas are releasing some classics back into the wild, including Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo; the story of a boy (Hiroki Doi) living on the coast who befriends a magical goldfish […]
Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
