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In the words of Jigsaw: “I want to play a game. Do you have Kerplunk?” No, the game we’re playing is guess which movie these genuine reviews are referring to: […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is based on the true story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a bigoted Texan who is diagnosed HIV-positive, and sets up a business selling medication to fellow patients. […]
LGBT History Month: My Beautiful Laundrette
Set in 1980s London, My Beautiful Laundrette is the story of Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young British Asian who begins working for his crooked uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey). He soon finds himself […]
LGBT History Month: The Children’s Hour
The lives of two teachers (Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine) are destroyed when one of their pupils (Karen Balkin) spreads a lie that they are lesbian lovers. Released in 1961, […]
LGBT History Month: The Crying Game
An IRA soldier named Fergus (Stephen Rea) befriends his hostage Jody (Forest Whitaker), in this 1992 thriller. The Crying Game is quite unlike anything else out there, with a plot full of genuine […]
In a World…
In a world… where every movie trailer has the same booming, masculine voice-over, it’s up to one woman (Lake Bell, which sounds like it should be a place but is […]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis is the new movie from everyone’s favourite Hollywood siblings. The Coen brothers. Not the Olsen twins. This drama follows a week in the life of Llewyn Davis […]
Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog death and just gets bleaker from there. The violent and angry Joseph (Peter Mullan) meets the kind-hearted Hannah (Olivia Colman) and the two strike up a […]
Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me
Sesame Street does David Lynch, in the Monsterpiece Theater adaptation of Twin Peaks. The Film Alistair Cookie’s version is an homage to the TV show, but let’s stick to Fire Walk […]
The Frozen Ground
2013 is the year that gave us a new royal idiot, a new stupid pope and a new boring thriller starring Batshit Man himself, Nicolas Cage. The Frozen Ground is the […]
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