Hope and Glory
Based on the childhood of director John Boorman, Hope and Glory is a look at the British Home Front during the Blitz. The first half of the film follows the […]
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Jackie Brown
In Quentin Tarantino’s third film, the legendary Pam Grier plays an air hostess who becomes embroiled in an elaborate set-up after she’s arrested by the FBI. Based on a book, […]
Edge of Darkness
2010 revenge thriller Edge of Darkness is not to be confused with the song ‘Edge of Glory’, no matter how gaga the plot. Following the murder of his daughter (Bojana […]
The Possession
Where most possession movies are based around Christianity, 2012’s The Possession features a Jewish demon – and since we call the Christian ones Jesus Creepers, it seems only fair that […]
Niagara
Marilyn Monroe plays Rose Loomis, a young woman plotting to kill her husband and run off with a younger man, in this crime thriller which is one of the actor’s […]
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
Magic Mike
Dan recently proved that he doesn’t know me at all by buying me a film about a bunch of sexy men who undress for a living. Fortunately the Magic Mike […]
Long Strange Trip
Long Strange Trip is a Grateful Dead documentary produced by the band, their families, Martin Scorsese and David Lemieux; the archivist best known for getting distracted by nature. At 4 hours this […]
Wadjda
This is the story of a young girl in Saudi Arabia, Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), who has no interest in conforming to the super-strict gender role that is expected of her. […]
The War of the Roses
Danny de Vito directs and stars as a lawyer recounting the tale of the Roses, his close friends, whose long marriage was one of the thorniest he’s ever seen. The […]
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