Maestro
Bradley Cooper returns to music-based relationship drama in this biopic of American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Let’s call it A Tar is Born. As both actor and director, Cooper delivers a […]
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Gremlins
An economically depressed town is visited by rampaging creatures in the 1984 Christmas classic they should have called It’s a Wonderful Lifeform. All of Billy’s (Zach Galligan) Christmases come at […]
Trading Places
This 1983 comedy sees An American Werewolf in London director John Landis trade wolves for Wall Street, or the Philadelphia equivalent. Rocky Road? Loosely based on Mark Twain’s The Prince […]
Dream Scenario
Nicolas Cage goes from saving pigs to counting sheep in this black comedy about a man who appears in multiple people’s dreams. Dream Scenario is presumably based on the “This […]
Napoleon (2023)
Since we had the distinction of watching Napoleon at Waterloo, it joins the ranks of Isle of Dogs (which we saw on the Isle of Dogs), Threads (which we saw […]
The Shop Around the Corner
To avoid confusion, this is the James Stewart Christmas movie that was remade as You’ve Got Mail, not the James Stewart Christmas movie that was remade as Gremlins. Set in […]
Audition
Nathan For You‘s ‘The Hunk’ meets Stephen King’s Misery in this J-horror classic about a widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who holds a fake audition to find a new wife. Released in […]
Battle Royale
With Junior Eurovision currently in full swing, our attention inevitably turns to another group of competitive children with blood on their hands. A high school class are sent to a […]
Anatomy of a Fall
This French drama follows Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer living in Grenoble. One day her husband (Samuel Theis) falls from a window to his death, and before you can […]
May December
Child abuse comedies have somewhat gone out of vogue since the glory days of Home Alone, but Todd Haynes is here to give the genre an overdue glow-up. Based on a […]
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