Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome) is 14 going on incessantly about snogging in this 2008 adaptation of the UK’s 127th favourite book. I know I’m not the target audience for this […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
Catwoman
Halle Berry goes from Monster’s Ball to hairball in this piece of shit godawful movie – not my words, but those of one Halle Berry. Released two years after Berry’s […]
Final Destination 2
A 25-year-old college student (A. J. Cook) witnesses a traffic collision that turns out to be a premonition (and not just the cast’s careers going up in in flames). After […]
Watcher
This 2022 psychological thriller follows Julia (Maika Monroe), an American who moves to Bucharest and becomes convinced she is being watched through her window; a heightened risk in Romania since […]
An American Werewolf in London
American pals (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) become pedigree chums after getting lost on the Yorkshire Moors under a full moon. John Landis’ horror/comedy crossbreed is best remembered for its […]
Diary of the Dead
A group of film students shoot zombies in more ways than one in this found footage flick from 2007, the fifth chapter in George A. Romero’s zombie saga. This is […]
Infernal Affairs
A mob rat and a police mole (Tony Leung and Andy Lau) face off in the 2002 movie subsequently remade as The Wind in the Willows. I mean The Departed. This […]
Double Indemnity
An insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) gets more than he bargained for after falling for a housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) in Billy Wilder’s 1944 thriller. Double Indemnity is vintage noir, all shadowy […]
Stop Making Sense
The sight of David Byrne and his massive square suit back on the big screen will come as great relief for Talking Heads fans and bad news for Liz Truss. […]
Land of the Dead
George A. Romero returns to the genre he invented for this 2005 fourquel about a city overrun by zombies and overseen by a plutocrat (Dennis Hopper). The success of 28 […]
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