Dead of Winter
Barb Sorenson’s (Emma Thompson) ice fishing trip is rudely interrupted by a kidnapping, in this survival thriller they should have called Deadliest Catch. Dead of Winter proudly references Fargo in […]
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On iPlayer: Primary Colors
Adding credence to the notion that any rich schmuck can be president, John Travolta plays a Democratic candidate in this 1998 political satire. Adapted from an anonymously published novel about […]
Junior
From the producer of David Cronenberg… it’s Junior! After the success of Ivan Reitman’s Twins (a title he bought from Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers project), he heard the world clamouring for […]
The Legend of Barney Thompson
Robert Carlyle directs and stars as the titular character, a cantankerous barber whose boring life is turned upside down when he accidentally kills someone and ends up being wanted for […]
Late Night
Emma Thompson is Katherine Newbury, a prime time talk show host who’s past her prime, and is asked to retire to let a man take her place. When she looks […]
Missing Link
Hugh Jackman leaves Victorian London to prove the existence of Bigfoot in Missing Link, AKA The Greatest Abominable Snowman. The missing link in this case (apart from the dearth of […]
The Remains of the Day
Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in 1993’s The Remains of the Day, the next in our series of movies where Hopkins is linked to a woman at least 20 years his junior. […]
Saving Mr. Banks
As an experiment, myself and my co-goblin Alex are writing this review between us, but you’d never tell because we’ve made it appear seamless using goblin magic. So, 50 years […]
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