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 […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
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 […]
Madeleine
The titular Madeleine (Ann Todd) is torn between her father’s (Leslie Banks) wish for her to find an eligible suitor, and secret love Emile (Ivan Desny), the economically inferior and […]
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
As if to confirm the pointlessness of these Halloween sequels, they were officially erased by last year’s direct follow-up to the original, and that sequel was inexplicably also called Halloween. […]
Hulk
Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is a nuclear researcher with a dark and convoluted past. His estranged father (Nick Nolte) coincidentally worked in the exact same field, carrying out experiments with […]
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