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 […]
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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 […]
The Pledge
Jack Nicholson plays Jerry White, a retiring cop who takes on one last case after some rather unreasonable battery farmers make him swear on his eternal soul to find the […]
Video Nasty 67: The Toolbox Murders
Set around a spate of tool-based killings in an LA apartment block, 1978 slasher The Toolbox Murders is a film too dull to bother banning or even talking about, but they […]
Cherry Pop
When an upstart drag queen (Lars Berge) makes her onstage debut at nightclub Cherry Pop, she faces hostility from the more seasoned queens, and is thrust into the limelight when […]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
The only Friday the 13th film to share its subtitle with a Muppet movie, 1989’s Jason Takes Manhattan opens with a canoodling couple boating on Crystal Lake. Just as the horny […]
Rambo III
In his third outing (wisely not called First Blood: Part III) Sylvester Stallone’s traumatised vet turns Afghanistan into Afgunistan when he goes there to rescue his only friend, Colonel Trautman […]
2001: A Space Odyssey
In possibly the most ambitious film ever made, Stanley Kubrick seeks to show no less than the entire history of humanity, from the first humans to our potential exploration of […]
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ahead of September’s new Rambo movie (Rambo Number 5?) let’s look back on this 1985 sequel and ultraviolent Coca-Cola advert. Not so much a film as a catalogue of shots […]
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