All I Desire
The premise of 1953 romantic drama All I Desire is almost Showgirls in reverse; Naomi Murdoch (not quite Nomi Malone but close enough) is a faded actress who travels from […]
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Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
Sexy Beast
An ex-pat ex-con (Ray Winstone) has his retirement interrupted by his psychotic boss (Ben Kingsley) who arrives in Spain with all the charm and composure of an English person arriving […]
Stir Crazy
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor play Flip and Harry, a pair of friends from New York who get fired on the same day and decide to head to California. But […]
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox plays a transformer of sorts in Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s feminist horror/comedy, whose high school succubus plot resembles a combination of the novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold Our Souls by […]
Pitch Perfect
This is a competition movie about two a cappella singing teams, the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers, at a university for the musically impaired. I hated this film and I […]
Heal the Living
This French film from 2014 follows two families: the parents of Simon (Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gabin Verdet), a 17-year-old boy who’s left brain dead after a car accident; and […]
Sister Act
After witnessing a murder by her dodgy ex (Harvey Keitel), life-loving singer Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg) is sent to witness relocation in the most unlikely place possible: a convent under stern […]
The Addams Family
America’s most creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, chunky yet funky (or is that Latrice Royale) family hit the big screen in 1991, finding themselves the victim of a con involving […]
Matilda
Carrie meets Malcolm in the Middle in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation. Danny DeVito directs this tale of a telekinetic Lisa Simpson (Mara Wilson) with the same heightened physicality displayed in […]
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