Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Everyone’s favourite plasticine chicken is back! But enough about Brexit’s impact on UK food standards. Here’s the 2023 Netflix sequel to Chicken Run. Having eggscaped the evil cluckches of Mrs. […]
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The Philadelphia Story
A journalist (James Stewart) gatecrashes a socialite’s (Katharine Hepburn) wedding plans in this 1940 comedy they should have called Say Yes to the Press. Representing screwball comedy at its finest, […]
The Great Mouse Detective
A mouse who lives in Sherlock Holmes’ cellar solves rodent-based crimes in this 1986 Disney flick they should have called The Grate Detective. Arriving just ahead of the ’90s Disney […]
Harvey
Elwood P. Dowd’s (James Stewart) family become increasingly frustrated by his apparent friendship with an invisible six-foot rabbit in this 1950 comedy they should have called One Flew Over the Púca’s Nest. […]
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is a 2018 dystopian sci-fi musical about a Greek island where all music apart from ABBA has been outlawed. Ten years after reading her […]
The Visit
A pair of tween siblings (Ed Oxenbould and Olivia DeJonge) film a home movie about visiting their grandparents in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2015 found footage horror flick that represents an […]
The Host (2006)
Not to be confused with 2020 horror flick Host or 2013 Stephenie Meyer film The Host, 2006’s The Host is a Korean creature feature about a giant fishlike monster that […]
Midnight Cowboy
Cowboy-cosplayer Joe Buck (Jon Voight) swaps Texas dishwasher work for New York sex work, only to discover the popularity of cowboys is on the Wayne. John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning drama is […]
Wuthering Heights (2011)
The glass-shattering Kate Bush song is reimagined as a class-shattering film in Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Bleak even by Brontë standards, this earthy, elemental retelling of the […]
Independence Day
Will Smith encounters alien life in this Scientologist origin story from 1996. Roland Emmerich’s alien-invasion blockbuster has all the spectacle, subtlety and American flags one expects from the Master of […]
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