Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
A decade after Borat travelled across America in an ice cream van to kidnap Pamela Anderson, Sacha Baron Cohen dusts off the grey suit and moustache for election year, with […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
The Thing (2011)
Immediately before the events of 1982’s The Thing, a much worse version of The Thing took place at the same research station, except with Mary Elizabeth Winstead of Kurt Russell. […]
Big
13-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) yearns to be big and learns the misery of adulthood when he wakes up as a full-grown George Osborne lookalike (Tom Hanks). Directed by Penny […]
The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter’s The Thing has the same basic premise as The Thing from Another World (a very cold group of researchers discover a very deadly alien life form) but moves […]
The Thing from Another World
Not to be confused with The Thing (1982), The Thing (2011), the Thing from the Fantastic Four or That Thing You Do!, this is the original 1951 adaptation of Who […]
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder would have passed most of us by in 2003, coming a few months before South Korean cinema had its international breakthrough with Oldboy. Following Parasite‘s Oscar […]
The Aristocats
I loved Disney’s The Aristocats as a child, though I don’t know if that’s because I loved cats and jazz or if I love cats and jazz because of this […]
La Haine
Re-released at this depressingly apt point in time, 1995 French drama La Haine (Hate) follows three disaffected youths (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui) over the course of a […]
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are back in this 1991 sequel, this time facing their evil robot doppelgängers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves). Bogus Journey swaps the […]
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
As the Wyld Stallyns gallop back into (a handful of) cinemas, we look back on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure from 1989. Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon’s cult classic follows Bill […]
