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 […]
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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 […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Alpha
10,000 years before 10,000 BC, Alpha deals not just with early humans but early canines, as we discover how dogs became to man what diamonds are to girls. Like 10,000 […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Year One
Do you ever worry your skillset would have been useless in prehistoric times? Not me. I’d have been a pun-ter gatherer. Judd Apatow does Life of Brian in this 2009 […]
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