The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well (tell that to Margaret Thatcher) is Akira Kurosawa’s cross between Hamlet and American Psycho. Hip to be square or hip not to be square? That is the […]
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Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick supposedly intended Dr Strangelove to be a serious Cold War thriller but ended up making a comedy due to the unavoidable absurdity of the situation. But in an […]
Blue
This film from Caravaggio director Derek Jarman is an entirely blue screen over which the director talks about his experiences living with AIDs, shortly before his death the following year. […]
Tomb Raider
The world’s second most famous ass-kicking archaeologist is back, this time heading to Japan in search of her missing father in this reboot starring Alicia Vikander. Alicia Vikander? From The […]
The Heartbreak Kid
From one Jewish movie to another, The Heartbreak Kid follows the nebbish Lenny (Charles Grodin) who meets the WASPy Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) while on his honeymoon. I told you it […]
Bee Movie
A bee (Jerry Seinfeld), destined to slave in a honey factory for eternity, breaks free and discovers the precious golden goo is being sold to humans en masse and resolves […]
A Man for All Seasons
This is the story of Sir Thomas More (Paul Schofield), who succeeds Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles) as King Henry VIII’s (Robert Shaw) Lord Chancellor. When Henry seeks to leave the […]
Deep Red
A pianist (David Hemmings) witnesses a brutal murder in 1975 giallo Deep Red, which would technically make orange. Directed by Dario Argento with another progtastic score by Goblin, Deep Red […]
Caravaggio
Caravaggio is an art movie in every sense of the term, following the famous painter as he creates his vivid chiaroscuro masterpieces, and uncovering the emotional states that led to […]
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
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