Gremlins
An economically depressed town is visited by rampaging creatures in the 1984 Christmas classic they should have called It’s a Wonderful Lifeform. All of Billy’s (Zach Galligan) Christmases come at […]
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Trading Places
This 1983 comedy sees An American Werewolf in London director John Landis trade wolves for Wall Street, or the Philadelphia equivalent. Rocky Road? Loosely based on Mark Twain’s The Prince […]
The Shop Around the Corner
To avoid confusion, this is the James Stewart Christmas movie that was remade as You’ve Got Mail, not the James Stewart Christmas movie that was remade as Gremlins. Set in […]
Audition
Nathan For You‘s ‘The Hunk’ meets Stephen King’s Misery in this J-horror classic about a widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who holds a fake audition to find a new wife. Released in […]
Battle Royale
With Junior Eurovision currently in full swing, our attention inevitably turns to another group of competitive children with blood on their hands. A high school class are sent to a […]
Get Out
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family and experiences the worst cigarette detox this side of Shane in Survivor 12. Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut proves he’s the […]
Candyman
An academic’s (Virginia Madsen) research into urban legends takes her through the looking glass when one grizzly ghost story gets its hooks into her. This psychological thriller might be best […]
Tattoo (2002)
Tattoo is a German thriller from 2002, not to be confused with the 1981 American movie Tattoo or the Russian band t.A.T.u. This film has perhaps the most ridiculous opening […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
When black gold is struck in Osage County, white benefactors manage oil assets for the native Americans who own the land. After returning from World War I, Ernest Buckhart (Leonardo […]
The Exorcist
The greatest thing to come out of Catholicism since Pancake Day, The Exorcist is re-released for its 50th anniversary. It follows a famous actor (Ellen Burstyn) who moves to Washington […]
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