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 […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
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 […]
The Constant Gardener
It seems that every review I write has to include a bit where I complain about the film’s title, and The Constant Gardener is no exception. It’s not even about gardening. It’s […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a shy kid with a troubled past who’s just starting high school. Introverted and lonely, he’s taken in by “misfit” step-siblings Patrick and Sam (Ezra Miller […]
The Signal
New Year’s Eve is rubbish. You’re expected to have a great time which is inevitably disappointing. Everywhere is about ten times busier and more expensive than usual. Then all the […]
On iPlayer: Let Me In
The good news is that Let Me In is currently available on iPlayer. The bad news is that it’s crap. This remake of Let The Right One In stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a lonely, bullied […]
