Midnight Run
In this 1988 action/comedy, Robert De Niro plays a bounty hunter, joining the ranks of Boba Fett and that Keira Knightley movie no one saw. Seeing the words “De Niro” […]
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Prom Night
Time for another film available for free on YouTube – the sign of a quality movie. Prom Night opens with a group of children playing hide and seek. It’s all […]
Spectre
Daniel Craig stars in this new biopic of Phil Spector. Not really – it’s just another Bond film. In Craig’s fourth outing as 007, our misogynist hero uncovers a sinister organisation […]
The Village
Movie companies are seriously hot on copyright infringement, immediately removing from YouTube any content they deem remotely marketable. So when a film is available on YouTube in its entirety, there […]
On iPlayer: Ca$h
Anyone who saw Ocean’s Eleven and thought “If only this was in French” will be pleased to hear that Ca$h is currently on iPlayer. This French caper stars Jean Dujardin (The Artist) as a conman […]
Gothika
This 2003 horror movie is a woeful entry into the moribund scary-ghost-girl sub-genre. In a performance as limp and lifeless as her hair, Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist who’s inexplicably […]
Crimson Peak
Guillermo goes gothic in this new mystery tale starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston. Set around the turn of the 20th century, Crimson Peak is not a sequel to submarine movie Crimson Tide – […]
The Lobster
Colin Farrell channels Dougal McGuire, as he checks in to a dystopian spa, where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or else be turned into an animal of […]
On iPlayer: The Disappearance of Alice Creed
There’s a line in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy: “Only an idiot kidnaps.” Here we have two such idiots, in 2009 British thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed – currently available on iPlayer. […]
Children of the Corn
Stupid parents – first they’re telling you to go to bed, then they’re making you get out of bed at some ungodly hour like noon. It’s no wonder the child cult of Children of […]
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