Arrietty
Studio Ghibli shrinks to Studio Gimli in this 2010 Borrowers adaptation. Ghibli is all about detail, making Mary Norton’s diminutive classic the perfect playground for the anime giant’s miniaturised magic. […]
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams goes undercover as a British nanny in order to see his non-custodial children in Mrs. Doubtfire, a kind of ’90s Hairy Poppins. Where most zany-yet-sentimental flicks of this era fumble […]
Penguin Highway
From the nation that gave us Pingu in the City comes this 2018 anime about a precocious fourth-grader (Kana Kita) investigating a sudden influx of penguins. Waddle they think up […]
I’ve never seen…Crocodile Dundee
After hearing the tall tale of a man who was almost eaten by a croc, New York journalist Sue (Linda Kozlowski) heads to Australia to investigate in a flimsy pretext […]
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Kasper Collin’s 2005 documentary spotlights the eponymous saxophonist whose freeform playing in the 1960s rocked the jazz world back on its formal heels. People talk about rock bands being crazy […]
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life
England’s pointiest boobs since Alan Sugar are back in 2003 sequel Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Filth. Angelina Jolie and her poorly disguised stunt double return to […]
Red Eye
A Canadian, an Irishman and a statesman walk onto a plane in Wes Craven’s 2005 thriller. The story that sees a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) caught up in a terrorist […]
The Invisible Man (1933)
An invisible man (Claude Rains) arrives at a remote inn shrouded in goggles, overcoat and secrecy. After he’s aggravated by an over-helpful landlady he goes on a naked rampage against […]
Onibaba
Onibaba is another Asian film about staring into the abyss, literally in the case of two women living in a hut next to a pit. This Japanese classic hops across […]
Screens of the Stone Age: 1,000,000 B.C.
Twenty-six years before One Million Years B.C., when Raquel Welch was still in fur diapers, came 1940’s 1,000,000 BC. This slice of cinematic prehistory follows much the same story as […]
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