Being John Malkovich
How to explain Being John Malkovich? Well, basically an out of work puppeteer called Craig (John Cusack) gets a job in an office with a 5ft ceiling. When at work […]
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The 39 Steps
From 1935, this Hitchcock classic tells the tale of Hannay (Robert Donat) whose life is changed when he meets a beautiful woman at a local music hall. It turns out […]
One Hour Photo
After my recent diatribe against Robin Williams in my Good Morning, Vietnam review, fans of the zany actor will be pleased to hear I loved his sober performance in One […]
Trekkies
This documentary looks at the only fan group whose name appears in the Oxford English Dictionary: Trekkies. Denise Crosby (Lt. Natasha Yar in The Next Generation) meets a huge array of […]
88 Minutes
Thriller set-ups obviously designed to create as much tension as possible are nothing knew. How many films have a ticking time bomb or a threatened girlfriend? In Speed there’s a bus that […]
Expendables 3 Watch: “Kelsey Grammer? Seriously?”
The Expendables series has an ability to create rumours like no other, due to the fact the appeal of the films is almost entirely in their casting. Today we were […]
On iPlayer: King Kong (1933)
Taking a giant monkey to New York is up there with showering at a remote motel and visiting a Transylvanian castle on the list of things which established movie wisdom tells us […]
Reincarnated
This is a documentary about rapper Snoop Dogg on his journey of self discovery in Jamaica where he attempts to find a new, peaceful reggae sound away from the aggressive […]
How Not to Make a Revenge Film
Revenge is one of the great plot drivers. If a character has been harmed we are far more lenient in accepting behaviour that would otherwise be unacceptable. A good revenge […]
On iPlayer: The Ipcress File
In this noir spy thriller from 1965, Michael Caine is Harry Palmer, a London spy who uncovers a web of conspiracy when he’s tasked to track down kidnapped British scientists. […]
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