Billie
The dispassionate sensationalism of True Crime continues to seep into sensitive cultural environments in this new Billie Holiday documentary. It starts with ominous text introducing the late journalist Linda Kuehl […]
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Deliverance
Four businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) take a canoe trip down a Georgia river before it – and they – are dammed. Before temporarily scuppering his career with Zardoz, […]
Batman Forever
We now return to our regularly scheduled programme of reviewing all the films Michael Owen hasn’t seen. More a threat than a title, Batman Forever stars Val Kilmer as Gotham’s […]
#HateFilms: The Karate Kid
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
#HateFilms: Heat
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]
#HateFilms: Cool Runnings
To recap, we’re reviewing all the films that Michael Owen has been “forced to watch,” today’s being Cool Runnings. Or as Owen might say: “My wife and I watched that […]
#HateFilms: Ghost
In 2014 Michael Owen tweeted that he’d only seen 8 films. And if you think that’s weird you should see Ghost. The late Patrick Swayze is a ghost in this […]
#HateFilms: Forrest Gump
Back in 2014, before we had COVID or Trump or Brexit to talk about, the news included the revelation that footballer Michael Owen had only watched 8 movies in his […]
Shaun of the Dead
Netflix recently claimed that “The world had never known a ‘zom-com’ until Santa Clarita Diet.” Assuming they meant zombie rom-com rather than just zombie comedy (unless they’re really brain-dead) this […]
Gerald’s Game
A kinky couple (Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood) drive to an isolated cabin where he has a heart attack while she’s handcuffed to the bed, in this Netflix adaptation of […]
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