Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
Love Nest
Jim Scott (William Lundigan) returns from World War Two to discover his wife Connie (June Haver) has invested in a large house and set about letting out the rooms. But […]
Opera
Dario Argento continues his streak of making the world’s best-looking and least-comprehensible horror movies with 1987’s Opera. Based on his experiences directing a failed version of Verdi’s Macbeth, Argento’s giallo proved […]
American Psycho
Sexy psychopath Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) likes to take care of himself. Obsessed with appearance and social status, he works in mergers and acquisitions by day and murders and executions […]
Junior
From the producer of David Cronenberg… it’s Junior! After the success of Ivan Reitman’s Twins (a title he bought from Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers project), he heard the world clamouring for […]
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In Communist-era Romania, student Găbița (Laura Vasiliu) has fallen pregnant and needs an illegal abortion. She enlists the help of her roommate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) to find a doctor willing […]
Murder Party
Before Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) became the Krzysztof Kieślowski of thrillers, he made this micro-budgeter about a parking inspector (Chris Sharp) attending a Halloween party hosted by a […]
Inferno
The Da Vinci Code‘s Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) takes on thrift-shop Thanos (Ben Foster) with an infernal plan to release a virus destroying half the world’s population in order to […]
He Who Dares
Downing Street is under siege in this action movie whose most realistic aspect is how easy it is to get into Number 10. This rip-off of Olympus Has Fallen and […]
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