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 […]
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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 […]
Totally Killer
A teenager (Kiernan Shipka) travels back in time to 1987 to stop a serial killer from terrorising big-haired high school girls, in this 2023 horror/comedy they should have called Terminator […]
Mission: Impossible 2
In this 2000 sequel, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must stop an evil scotsman (Dougray Scott) from unleashing a deadly virus, lest anyone other than Paramount should profit from the release […]
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