Grudge Match
Two actors who should know better (Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone) play two boxers who should know better as they step into the ring to settle a long standing […]
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West is West
On the list of films you didn’t expect to get the sequel treatment, East is East is high up the list, next to Donnie Darko and Psycho. But how does […]
The Curse of Frankenstein
In this 1957 Hammer adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star as the hapless Baron Frankenstein and his gruesome monster respectively. What will follow from fanatical Frankenstein constructing […]
Apocalypto
I’ve put off watching this for a while. If it’s any good an American director will remake it in English. Oh wait… Mayan certainly isn’t the most common of languages […]
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street can be summed up in one word: excess. Martin Scorsese seeks to do for the yuppie culture of the 1980s what Brian De Palma did for […]
Patriot Games
Some films try new things, so even if they don’t quite work they can be forgiven. At least they tried something different. Not Patriot Games. Patriot Games is happy to […]
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder follows in the great tradition of films about film production, from Adaptation to Barton Fink, Seven Psychopaths to Galaxy Quest. It’s most similar to this last film, as a […]
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Modern retellings of classic tales are nothing new, from Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet to Blancanieves, Snow White set in 1930s Spain. But this interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey – set […]
The War of the Worlds (1953)
This classic film is a classic adaptation of the classic novel by H.G. Wells. When mysterious meteors crash land on earth, aliens emerge in seemingly invincible spacecraft and wage war […]
Anaconda
A boat full of people go deep into the Amazon, with nothing but basic supplies of hair conditioner, in search of wildlife footage. On their way they’re joined by a […]
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