Killer’s Moon
This British slasher from 1978 follows a group of choir girls on a coach trip to the Lake District, just about the most English premise imaginable (short of sending them to […]
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Easy A
There’s a long tradition of movies that start with a lie that spins out of control, from 1961’s The Children’s Hour (my teachers are lesbians!) to this year’s Yardie (I […]
American Animals
You’d be forgiven for being sceptical about yet another film called American Something, but having previously sat through films like American Pie and American Ultra, I feel that if it’s good enough for Max […]
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Hot chicks! Fast cars! Ultraviolence! But enough about my Amazon wish list, on with the review. As well as being one of the greatest titles in movie history, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! […]
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
A teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) is sent to a gay conversion centre after she’s caught with another girl (Quinn Shephard) in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, or Girl on Girl Interrupted. Based on Emily […]
Auto Focus
Auto Focus is a Paul Schrader movie about Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, not to be confused with Batman creator Bob Kane. Or based on his sexual appetite, Bill Finger. […]
The Crappytime Murders
Guy Ritchie ruined my 17th birthday. He wasn’t invited or anything, but 10 years ago today I went to see RocknRolla and not since the actual day of my birth has […]
Yardie
Jamaican drug runner Dennis (Aml Ameen) is sent to Hackney in Idris Elba’s directorial debut Yardie, or The Harder They Come To London. Unfortunately Elba appears to have picked up […]
Slender Man
Let me start with some real-world background: in 2014, an American kid stabbed a classmate in the woods after reportedly being inspired by Slender Man, a meme that came from […]
The Equalizer 2
This sequelizer to The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as the eponymous neutralizer of vandalizers, terrorizers and burglarizers. It’s the perfect film if you want to catch some Zs. Since the […]
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