Licence to Kill
Timothy Dalton makes his second and final appearance as James Bond in Licence to Kill, which is English for License to Kill. Dalton’s Bond is a more serious character than […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Doomsday
As the polls close on today’s tedious general election, let’s take a look at an equally unexciting movie – Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. I’m a big Neil Marshall fan – Dog […]
Unfriended
A group Skype session is rudely interrupted by a cyber-psycho in Unfriended, a found footage film for the Facebook generation. Let’s call it The Antisocial Network. Eyes Without a Facebook […]
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a stupid name for a great film. Plot-wise, the less you know the better (to quote the name of a DJ Shadow album). So vaguely speaking, it’s about […]
Force Majeure
Ski resorts are ripe screen territory, having set the scene for Swiss drama Sister by Ursula Meier (no relation – probably), British rom-com Chalet Girl (never seen it) and the […]
It Follows
After the tedious stupidity of John Wick, here’s another piece of trash that’s inexplicably impressed critics; new(ish) horror film It Follows – not to be mixed up with In Fear, as I did, […]
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film, directed by filmmaker, birdwatcher and George Carlin lookalike Wes Craven. Bill Pullman plays an anthropologist sent by a pharmaceutical company to […]
Black Mama, White Mama
When a pair of bickering prisoners (Pam Grier and Margaret Markov) make their escape, they end up on the run – but they’re handcuffed to one another. Resentful of each […]
John Wick
In the latest straight-to-DVD action movie to somehow wind up in cinemas, Keanu Reeves plays John Wick – a retired hitman with a classic car, a cute puppy and a […]
Wild Tales
Argentina’s entry for 2014’s foreign language Oscar was portmanteau movie Wild Tales, or Relatos salvajes if you’re Spanish or pretentious. Wild Tales comprises six short stories, featuring a disgruntled explosives […]
