The Princess Bride
From the writer-director-duo behind Misery comes another film about a bedridden character (Fred Savage), like Misery for children (not in a maths sense). Like Annie Wilkes, the boy’s grandfather (Peter […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Lolita
The BFI’s Kubrick season reminds us again of the visionary director’s breadth of genre: historical epics, political satire and of course, abuse comedy. Two and a half hours of a […]
Total Recall (2012)
Of all the movies to remake, cult films seem a particularly bad prospect. Fans don’t necessarily love the characters or stories independently of the film, they’re fans of the film […]
Freaks
Freaks is a pre-Code film with one of the greatest taglines in movie history: “Can a full-grown woman truly love a midget?” Following the success of Universal’s Dracula, MGM asked […]
Johnny English Reborn
As if there weren’t currently enough reasons to be horribly embarrassed by all things English, Johnny English Reborn is now on Netflix. This 2011 sequel opens with Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) […]
Prince of Darkness
In the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church, a priest (Donald Pleasence) discovers a mysterious canister full of swirling green liquid unbeknown to the Vatican (we’ve heard that one […]
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
What do Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk and Chick Corea have in common? Apart from all having ridiculously cool names, they all recorded on Blue Note Records, the greatest jazz label […]
Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy
Released on her 75th birthday, this celebration of the biggest diva called Ross since Friends showcases her rained-off 1983 concert in New York, AKA the Fire Island Festival AKA Gimme Shelter […]
Video Nasty 40: The Beyond
I watched Italian zombie film The Beyond (1981) in the hope of some Brexit respite, only to be confronted with the story of a one-dimensional woman (Catriona MacColl) who finds […]
Us
This home inversion movie follows a woman (Lupita Nyong’o) whose trauma from a childhood funhouse experience resurfaces while on a beach holiday with her family – essentially The Strangers by […]
