Blade
This is a 1998 comic book movie about the half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snipes) kicking the (un)living shit out of some vamps. And by vamps I mean vampires, not the British […]
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Love & Mercy
Penned by I’m Not There writer Oren Moverman, Love & Mercy is a biopic of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, played by Paul Dano, John Cusack and Cate Blanchett. Just […]
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary that follows The Rolling Stones, who are inexplicably still touring today, even though Keith Richards looks like he died some time before they started […]
The Mist
Set almost entirely in a shop, Dawn of the Dead-style, The Mist is a 2007 horror dirge about a bunch of idiots hiding from some mist. “Would the malevolent mist […]
Slow West
Slow West is a Western from newcomer John Maclean, not to be confused with John McClane from Die Hard. Yippee-ki-yay, etc. The story follows a young man named Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who travels from Scotland to […]
Hellboy
What’s big, red and will kill you if it falls out of a tree? A firetruck. Or alternatively Hellboy, the Dark Horse Comics anti-superhero who made his movie debut in […]
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
In the week when we learned the name of the new Star Trek film (Star Trek: Beyond Stupid), we look back at the 1991 offering – Star Trek VI: The […]
Amy
You’ve probably seen the posters for Amy; a new documentary about musician Amy Winehouse, who – like so many great rock stars – tragically died at the age of 27. Director […]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd hit the big screen in 2007, courtesy of artist, director and David Cameron’s friend Tim Burton. In one of the great shock casting decisions of the […]
The Last King of Scotland
The feature debut of documentarian Kevin Maconald (Marley), The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical thriller – not about Alex Salmond, but former Ugandan President Idi Amin (Forest […]
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