Green Room
Green Room is a horror film starring Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin, making it something of a Trekgasm. Make that a Borgasm. Jeremy Saulnier’s new movie follows a punk band who end […]
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Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 thriller about a New York woman (Bridget Fonda) whose new flatmate (Jennifer Jason Leigh) turns out to be the roommate from hell. And I don’t mean she steals […]
Midnight Special
When it comes to lazy naming conventions, the prefix Midnight is second only to American – Midnight Cowboy, Midnight Run and now Midnight Special. The film opens with two men and a child (Michael […]
Zootropolis
Disney’s latest animation has more names than Snoop Dogg. In the UK it’s Zootropolis, in the US Zootopia, in Germany Zoomania and in China the very catchy Crazy Animal City. So in […]
Marguerite
The twin films phenomenon strikes again. This year sees the release of two movies based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, a notoriously bad amateur opera singer from the […]
Premium Rush
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a New York bicycle courier called Wilee (as in the cartoon coyote) in Premium Rush – essentially Duel but instead of a malevolent truck, he’s being chased by the even scarier Michael […]
10 Cloverfield Lane
After Bruce Willis’ daughter from the Die Hard movies crashes her car, she wakes up chained to a bed in a bunker, where John Goodman insists that it’s no longer […]
High-Rise
This is the second goat movie of the week, so I’ll spare the goat puns because you herd them all in my review of The Witch. High-Rise is the new J. […]
The Witch
In 1630s New England, witchcraft tears apart a family and seriously spooks their livestock. The result is probably the best goat movie since The Sound of Music – with children almost as […]
Way Out West
Very much the Blazing Saddles of its day, Way Out West sticks Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) in a Wild West setting – like Of Mice and Men but with two […]
