When Marnie Was There
Released in 2014, When Marnie Was There was Studio Ghibli’s final film – until 2020’s How Do You Live? was announced by Hayao Miyazaki, a man who comes out of retirement almost as often […]
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Super Fly
Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) is a Harlem coke pusher who decides to go straight after one final score: selling 30 kilos of cocaine in 4 months for $1 million. Talk about a […]
Ghostbusters II & Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1984 may not have been a fun year for Winston Smith, but fans of creature comedies got Ghostbusters and Gremlins out of it – and a few years later, a pair of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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