Elizabeth: The Golden Age
As Spanish invasion looms, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) does her best to avoid being known forever as ‘the Virgin Queen’. Elizabeth: The Golden Age is an altogether more lively affair […]
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Still Walking
This intimate drama follows three generations of the Yokoyama family who get together to remember the life of oldest son Junpei who died several years earlier. Through this set-up it […]
The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir
Named after the first song he wrote for the Grateful Dead, The Other One is a 2015 documentary about the rhythm guitarist and singer who has arguably played more gigs “than any […]
Panorama – Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
The BBC broadcast an exposé of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week, much to the chagrin of party spokesman Owen Jones who helpfully criticised the camerawork, likening it to […]
My Favorite Wife
In a courtroom, Nick Arden (Cary Grant) is having his first wife declared dead after she went missing in a boating accident so he can marry Bianca (Gail Patrick). But […]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American (Tony Musante) in Rome witnesses the most heinous act to disgrace an art gallery since that “invisible” exhibition. Dario Argento’s directorial debut (and the first instalment in his […]
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
When last we saw Shatner-faced babysitter-botherer Michael Myers, he was being sprung from jail by a mysterious Man in Black. 6 years later we (and the producers) discover that this […]
Evan Almighty
A former TV personality gets elected to Washington and finds himself having to build something ridiculous. This sort-of sequel to Bruce Almighty features Bruce’s smarmy co-host Evan (Steve Carell), who’s […]
3 Women
Robert Altman’s 1977 psychodrama 3 Women is set around the pool of an apartment block and inspired by the director’s dreams. Fortunately that’s where the similarities to M. Night Shyamalan’s […]
Rambo
Given the number of decades he’d spent in genre flicks by 2008, you’d be forgiven for expecting Sylvester Stallone to at least know how to direct an action sequence, but […]
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