2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
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Bombshell
Bombshell is a #MeToo movie from the director of Meet the Fockers. Thank you for reading my review. This fictionalised exposé does for the Fox News sexual harassment scandal what The […]
The Campaign
When incumbent congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major gaffe on the campaign trail, wealthy donors the Motch Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow) back a new horse in the […]
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 […]
Pet Sematary
Stephen King’s famous story of the misspelled animal graveyard is exhumed 30 years after its original big-screen adaptation, this time from the producer of the Transformers films and starring Terminator […]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Physicist, neurosurgeon and rock star Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is test driving his Jet Car through the solid matter of a mountain when he inadvertently unleashes a group of alien reptiles […]
Raising Cain
To paraphrase my co-Goblin Dan, “Brian De Palma totally kisses Alfred Hitchcock’s butt”. I said in my recent review of Dressed to Kill that it was in many ways an extension of […]
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