Judy
Renée Zellweger continues her campaign against London as Judy Garland, whose struggles with substance abuse and custody battles bring her to England in 1969, in the feelbad romp of the […]
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Look Back in Anger
Richard Burton plays archetypal angry young man Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, from which Oasis derived a song title and much of their behaviour. Adapted from John Osborne’s […]
Fist of Fury
In his second kung fu movie, Bruce Lee seeks retribution for the death of his master (based on the real Huo Yuanjia) and humiliation at the hands of Japanese fighters, […]
Predator 2
Released in 1990 but set in 1997 for no discernible reason, Predator 2 follows an LAPD officer (Danny Glover) staking out a turf war between rival drug cartels. And occasionally […]
Rambo: Last Blood
This week sees the release of two old people movies: Downton Abbey and Rambo: Last Blood AKA Rambo Number 5. 11 years after his last bloodbath, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Released a whole 4 years after Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is yet another misleading title since a) he doesn’t and b) it isn’t. From the […]
Killing Gunther
This is a 2017 mockumentary about a team of assassins trying to take down the world’s greatest hitman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) – not a missing episode of Friends. Because that would […]
The Unforgiven
A frontier family must defend their home after their adopted sister (Audrey Hepburn) is revealed to have been stolen from a Native American tribe in 1960’s The Unforgiven, a kind […]
That Thing You Do!
A rare case of a good film with an exclamation mark in the title, That Thing You Do! is the directorial debut of Turner & Hooch himself, Tom Hanks. Essentially Great […]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is one of the world’s clumsiest titles, not least because the movie has nothing to do with water so it’s not even a pun. This […]
