Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 3D
I think this yoghurt is haunted. That’s the last time I buy Paranormal Activia. I’ve wasted enough time complaining about found footage films, so I’ll spare you another rant about watching […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Steve Jobs
From the writer of The Social Network comes the story of a socially inept inventor who founded a giant tech company. Who says Hollywood has no new ideas? Steve Jobs […]
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Our Marithon continues with 1954’s There’s No Business Like Show Business, the story of a Vaudeville family-act called The Five Donahues – like the Osmonds but with Ethel Merman instead […]
Son of Rambow
From Be Kind Rewind to Super 8, there have been a few movies about amateur filmmaking in recent years. But there’s nothing amateur about Son of Rambow, the 2007 comedy written and directed by […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Everybody’s favourite dystopian gameshow is back – but enough about The Apprentice, here’s the final Hunger Games movie. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is too long, both as a title […]
Bonnie and Clyde
This 1967 classic tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the Depression-era outlaws with one simple objective: “We rob banks.” Arthur Penn’s movie humanises Bonnie and Clyde without glamorising them. […]
Psych-Out
Psych-Out is a 1968 psychedelic drama directed by Richard Rush, and Richard rushed to get the movie made in time to cash in on the Summer of Love. The film […]
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” […]
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 […]
