Bullitt
Bullitt is an early example of the great tradition of giving your main character an exciting-sounding-if-preposterous last name so you can use it as the title of the film. In […]
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The Crappening
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening opens with promise. Mass suicides mysteriously occur across the East Coast. Builders fall from scaffolding en masse like 100 Madonnas at the Brits. New Yorkers in Central Park suddenly stop […]
Caddyshack
This 1980 comedy is set at an exclusive golf club and stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and a gopher. Caddyshack makes occasional hints towards a plot but veers wildly off course, opting instead for a series […]
Waking Life
Waking Life is a psychedelic documentary by the inimitable Richard Linklater. It follows a dreaming, nameless protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) through variously trippy encounters, including numerous conversations about the nature of dreams. Made in 2001 […]
Superman II
Superman II sees the return of Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve), Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and screenwriter Mario Puzo. Hang on – Mario Puzo?! In this 1980 sequel, Kryptonian kriminal General Zod (Terence […]
Frozen
I finally set out to watch the phenomenon and biggest-grossing film of 2013 when stuck for 11 hours on a plane, but it’s actually not a very good plane movie. […]
The Client
The Client is about an 11-year-old boy from a deprived family who witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer. He in turn becomes a target of the mob as a […]
Superman
With the world still struggling to come to terms with just how bad Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is, we thought it would be a good idea to look back at […]
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a whistle-stop history of Russia in the first half of the 20th Century. A work camp guard (Alec Guinness) finds a woman he believes to be his niece. To fit jigsaw pieces […]
Puss in Boots
Rounding off our reviews of the less beloved films in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots tells the cat’s backstory in a quest to find the golden eggs from the top of a beanstalk. Along […]
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