Video Nasty 26: I Spit on Your Grave
The story of a New Yorker (Camille Keaton) who takes revenge on her redneck rapists, I Spit on Your Grave was at the heart of the video nasties scandal. Originally released […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
On iPlayer: Operation Avalanche
Operation Avalanche is the second feature from Matt Johnson, the maverick filmmaker behind Nirvanna the Band the Show. Anyone familiar with that brilliant series will be unsurprised to learn that […]
Scarlet Street
Kitty (Joan Bennett) and her dodgy boyfriend (Dan Duryea) see an opportunity to cash in when cashier Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) takes a fancy to her. A frustrated artist, […]
Batman and Robin
Batman and Robin (George Clooney and Chris O’Donnel) go from fighting a villain obsessed with riddles to one obsessed with puns, Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who sets the cold standard […]
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
An innocent fishing trip turns into an accidental bloodbath in this 2010 horror/comedy they should have called The Cabin in the Whoops. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, […]
Deliverance
Four businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) take a canoe trip down a Georgia river before it – and they – are dammed. Before temporarily scuppering his career with Zardoz, […]
Batman Forever
We now return to our regularly scheduled programme of reviewing all the films Michael Owen hasn’t seen. More a threat than a title, Batman Forever stars Val Kilmer as Gotham’s […]
#HateFilms: The Karate Kid
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
#HateFilms: Heat
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]
#HateFilms: Cool Runnings
To recap, we’re reviewing all the films that Michael Owen has been “forced to watch,” today’s being Cool Runnings. Or as Owen might say: “My wife and I watched that […]
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