Police Academy
An understaffed police department opens its ranks to recruits of any gender, age or weight in 1984’s Police Academy, AKA If…. meets On the Buses. This comedy sees a new […]
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Kindergarten Cop
Arnold Schwarzenegger goes undercover as a preschool teacher to find a dangerous criminal in Kindergarten Cop, the opposite of 2017’s Aftermath in which he tracks down a man in witness […]
The Hours
Three ticked-off women wallow in Stephen Daldry and David Hare’s The Hours, something of a misnomer since it clocks in at one hour 50. The stories of Virginia Woolf (Nicole […]
Hamlet (1990)
Mel Gibson goes mad in this cinematic version of perhaps the most quoted and adapted of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Where films like The Banquet and The Bad Sleep Well took Hamlet into […]
The Madness of King George
Who better to guide us through this period of self-isolated baking than Alan Bennett? Adapted from his play with the same star (Nigel Hawthorne) and director (regular collaborator Nicholas Hytner), […]
No Country for Old Men
Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
When MacMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is committed to a sleepy psychiatric hospital for evaluation he shakes up their mundane routine from under the watchful eye of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Jack […]
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In Berlin a murderer (Peter Lorre) is on the loose, preying on young girls. As the police repeatedly fail to catch him, angry mob bosses and an angry mob take […]
Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters to make the movie that would narrowly beat it, as Beverly Hills Cop cleverly comes top of the 1984 box office. This action-comedy about a […]
Conan the Borebarian
When Conan’s tribe is brutally massacred he goes on a quest for vengeance. Again. Having recently sat through Red Sonja we decided to round off the Conan canon with this […]
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