Hide Your Smiling Faces
It’s impossible to avoid allusions to the numerous foregoers to Hide Your Smiling Faces, an American indie about a group of boys who find a dead body by a River’s Edge, face down in […]
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Rocky III
Sly Stallone is back as writer, director and star in this 1982 sequel, which sees Rocky Balboa facing his strongest opponent yet: Clubber Lang, played by Mr. T, of BBC […]
Sunshine
It’s 2057 and the Sun is dying. A small team of astronauts and scientists are on their way to the dwindling star with a stellar bomb. Their mission: to reignite the Sun. […]
Rocky
Boxing is at the centre of a number of great films, whether it’s Raging Bull, The Fighter or Grudge Match. One of the most iconic is of course Rocky, starring […]
Hairspray (2007)
Baltimore has had numerous depictions on film and TV, ranging from The Silence of the Lambs to The Wire. But in Hairspray, it’s a city overrun not with serial killers […]
Dead Man’s Shoes
The scarily talented Paddy Considine is just plain scary as a soldier who returns to his Derbyshire village hell-bent on revenge, in 2004’s Dead Man’s Shoes. The first feature from […]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Physicist, neurosurgeon and rock star Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is test driving his Jet Car through the solid matter of a mountain when he inadvertently unleashes a group of alien reptiles […]
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
In the early ’80s, Canadian metal band Anvil were headlining rock festivals, releasing acclaimed albums and influencing the likes of Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica. 25 years later, the band have faded […]
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
In Wallace and Gromit’s 2005 cinematic debut, our plasticine heroes run a humane pest-control service called Anti-Pesto, there’s a were-rabbit on the loose, and the Giant Vegetable Competition is fast […]
Boyhood
12 years ago, Richard Linklater picked 6-year-old Ellar Coltrane to play a kid called Mason in his new family drama, which he filmed for a few days each year until […]
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