Screens of the Stone Age: Year One
Do you ever worry your skillset would have been useless in prehistoric times? Not me. I’d have been a pun-ter gatherer. Judd Apatow does Life of Brian in this 2009 […]
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Screens of the Stone Age: One Million Years B.C.
A dinosaur-pelting tribe meets a pelt-wearing tribe in One Million Years B.C., AKA The Hills Had Eyes. Set Before Christ but not Before Conditioner, this 1966 fantasy adventure sees early […]
Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
Porco Rosso
A porcine fighter pilot eludes Italian fascist swine in Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Hayao Miyazaki’s ode to old Hollywood follows the Bogartian bounty hunter through a series of hog nights […]
Legend (1985)
A young Tom Cruise stars in this largely forgotten fantasy flop ironically titled Legend. Bringing an abrupt halt to Ridley Scott’s early run of classics (The Duellists, Alien and Blade […]
Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
April Fool’s Day
No holiday could pass the 1980s without being memorialised in the form of a slasher flick, be it Christmas Evil, My Bloody Valentine or Bloody New Year. This became untenable in the […]
Bad Girls
Four prostitutes (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell) go on the run after killing an assailant in this 1994 Western AKA Thelma and Louisiana. Bad Girls rounds […]
A Tale of Two Sisters
Two sisters (Im Soo-jung and Moon Geun-young) suspect there’s something off about their stepmother (Yum Jung-ah) when they open the fridge door to find a bloody fish next to the peanut […]
Underwater
A deep-sea driller (Kristen Stewart) does some serious offshore boring in her latest box office bellyflop. Hot on the heels of the now long-forgotten Charlie’s Angels reboot, Stewart reaches new […]
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