When a Stranger Calls
A babysitter (Carol Kane) is stalked by a child-killer (Tony Beckley) in Fred Walton’s 1979 thriller adapted from his short film The Sitter, itself based on an urban legend about […]
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Thor: Love and Thunder
A god killer (Christian Bale) steals the children of New Asgard in Thor: Beyond Love and Thunderdome. As would happen to anyone stuck for three years on a spaceship with […]
A View to a Kill
Grace Jones goes from Nightclubbing to mine flooding in Roger Moore’s final Bond film, the story of a Silicon Valley industrialist (Christopher Walken) in bed with the Russians. Some things […]
Twilight
It hardly seems worth recapping the story of the world’s second-most famous glitter-based paedophile (Robert Pattinson). What is surprising is how little happens in the course of this two-hour fantasy […]
Fairytale
In 2007 artist Ai WeiWei took 1,001 Chinese people to the small German town of Kessel as part of a bewildering art installation. This is the story of how he […]
Akira
In the futuristic year 2019, Tokyo has been destroyed and a new metropolis built on artificial islands now rife with violence, protest and gang warfare. During a skirmish the young […]
Jumper
Nondescript white man David (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport at will, but he knits off more than he can chew when he’s hunted down by a […]
Theatre of Blood
Having referenced Theatre of Blood yesterday as an example of homicidal gimmickry, lend me your ears as we revive this comedy of terrors. Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) throws […]
Se7en
It is rare to see a film where Gwyneth Paltrow is the least problematic cast member, but next to Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman, 1995 thriller SE7EN (pronounced as 2 […]
I’ve Never Seen…Cast Away
Until today I didn’t have a Crusoe what happened in Cast Away, the story of a loyal FedEx employee who is neither delivered nor returned to sender when his plane […]
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