Diary of the Dead
A group of film students shoot zombies in more ways than one in this found footage flick from 2007, the fifth chapter in George A. Romero’s zombie saga. This is […]
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Night Swim
The big brains at Blumhouse take another dive into their big bin marked “Things That ARe Scarey” (red doors, black phones, nuns etc.) and dredge up this wet attempt at making […]
Poor Things
Pinocchio meets Frankenhooker in the sci-fi they should have called Pinocchi-ho. Set in Victorian London, Poor Things concerns a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who puts a child’s brain in an […]
Infernal Affairs
A mob rat and a police mole (Tony Leung and Andy Lau) face off in the 2002 movie subsequently remade as The Wind in the Willows. I mean The Departed. This […]
Deep Fear
Green Room meets The Descent in this French horror flick about 3 friends (Sofia Lesaffre, Victor Meutelet and Kassim Meesters) celebrating their last day in Paris by venturing into the […]
One Life
One Life is the story of Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), who helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia then didn’t bother telling anyone […]
Double Indemnity
An insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) gets more than he bargained for after falling for a housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) in Billy Wilder’s 1944 thriller. Double Indemnity is vintage noir, all shadowy […]
Stop Making Sense
The sight of David Byrne and his massive square suit back on the big screen will come as great relief for Talking Heads fans and bad news for Liz Truss. […]
Land of the Dead
George A. Romero returns to the genre he invented for this 2005 fourquel about a city overrun by zombies and overseen by a plutocrat (Dennis Hopper). The success of 28 […]
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron is supposedly the final film from Hayao Miyazaki, a man who has come out of retirement more times than Rocky Balboa. Set during World War […]
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