Rhinestone
Multi-Razzie-nominated Rhinestone belongs in the rare subcategory of films based on songs (in this case Rhinestone Cowboy; the country song, not the Madvillain track) alongside Love Me Tender, Yellow Submarine […]
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Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s is a 2019 documentary about the four-year window in which American ska music was popular in the 1990s. Taylor Morden’s love letter to […]
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Those feeling deprived of Eurovision this year will be pleased to experience the next best thing – but enough about the Eurovision in Isolation podcast; here’s a mind-numbing Netflix movie. […]
Barry Lyndon
After receiving death threats in the wake of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick headed to Ireland to adapt Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon only to be threatened by the IRA […]
Prom Night (2008)
Having run out of decent slasher flicks to remake in the noughties (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Black “X-Mas”), Hollywood started scraping the barrel for properties that weren’t even […]
Da 5 Bloods
Newly released on Netflix, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods seeks to rectify the whitewashing of war movies – think 2012’s Red Tails but with more Marvin Gaye and less George […]
Cinderfella
Cinderella gets gender-swapped in this 1960 comedy about a put-upon housekeeper called Fella (Jerry Lewis), a name unnecessary for the title to work. You might as well call him Jupiter. Brimming […]
Another Shark Movie 2
The eagerly unticipated sequel to 2017’s 47 Meters Down, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is now on Netflix. Where else would it be? Boasting a cast list that reads like the […]
Stay Hungry
A dodgy businessman (Jeff Bridges) tries to buy a gym in 1976 drama Stay Hungry, not a film so much as an answer to the trivia question: name the movie […]
The Last Stand
This is the 2013 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, not the X-Men film with which it shares a name and magnet-based prison van escape sequence. Arnie’s post-gubernatorial comeback has a few key ingredients […]
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