Doubt
At a solemn, grey Catholic school in 1960s America, the feared principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), of behaving inappropriately towards a student, […]
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Demolition Man
Warning: this film is going to take a bit of explaining. Demolition Man was made in 1993. Its opening is set in the then-future of 1996, where a rogue cop […]
The Wolverine
Everyone’s favourite crime fighting mutant is back for another solo outing, after 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. An isolated Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels to visit the deathbed of Japan’s most successful […]
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
When a Monsignor of the Catholic Church visits the town that sits in the shadow of Dracula’s castle, he inadvertently resurrects the monster, and severely pisses him off by attaching […]
Shame
Steve McQueen explores sex addiction in this 2011 film starring Michael Fassbender. Shame is like a stripped back American Psycho. Its main character, Brandon (Fassbender) lives in a minimalist yet […]
Righteous Kill
Only once before in the illustrious careers of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had the paths of the two men crossed, in Heat, but in 2008 it happened again, […]
World War Zzzzz
I recently saw World War Z. While I could describe at length how tedious and generic it is, this would result in just another tedious, generic review, so instead I […]
Newboy: Oldboy and English Language Remakes
This year Spike Lee is remaking the 2003 Korean film Oldboy. While the involvement of Samuel L Jackson can only improve a film, is this enough to justify the remake? […]
