Dreamgirls
Bill Condon goes from Chicago to Detroit in this Oscar-winning musical about a Motown-type girl group (Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose and Beyoncé). Few genres are as homogeneous as music movies, […]
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Falling Down
In a departure from his usual sleazebag roles, Michael Douglas plays a scumbag in Joel Schumacher’s hit comedy about racist violence and cot death. As with many 80s/90s films, a […]
Elektra
Say what you like about the Ben Affleck movie Daredevil (not out loud, obviously) – it did well enough to get a spin-off centred around the hero’s love interest (Jennifer […]
Creep (2004)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was still in cinemas when Christopher Smith debuted a much more realistic film about London, cocaine and imprisonment. In a premise worthy of Bridget […]
Salem’s Lot
Old foes come to New England in a 1979 take on Stephen King’s vampire tale. Originally conceived as a movie, Salem’s Lot was expanded to a 3+ hour TV miniseries […]
Little Shop of Horrors
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Return of the Living Dead might be a more appropriate title since I have already reviewed this 1985 zombie comedy, but as tends to happen when […]
The Big Sleep
Our Double Bogie continues with The Big Sleep, adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel in which private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gets mixed up in the affairs of the […]
The Maltese Falcon
Private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is chain-smoking his way through the afternoon when in walks a beautiful woman (Mary Astor) seeking his help to follow a man she claims […]
The Island
A pair of clones (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) discover they are clones living in a clone compound, and the promise of an idyllic Island little more than an organ […]
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