Monkey Business
This is a film about a brilliant scientist working on a cure for ageing, that he is testing on chimps in his lab. So it’s basically the plot of Rise […]
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Big Trouble in Little China
Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) drive to the airport to pick up Wang’s fiancée Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), only to see her kidnapped by […]
His Girl Friday
Billed on Netflix as a romantic comedy where two men fight over a woman, this is actually a scathing satire of the newspaper industry. It is to printed news what […]
Sunset Boulevard
When a struggling screenwriter’s (William Holden) car breaks down on Sunsent Boulevard, a faded silent movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her doting butler (Erich von Stroheim) welcome him to her […]
On iPlayer: Made in Dagenham
Set in 1968, Made in Dagenham is based on the sewing machinists strike over equal pay at Ford’s Dagenham plant. It’s currently on iPlayer, though if you’ve seen films like […]
Over the Top
There are films out there that defy belief, and most of them star Sylvester Stallone. Over the Top is such a film; a Stallone-penned drama about arm-wrestling. Let’s call it […]
Tango & Cash
Just when you thought Sylvester Stallone had exhausted soft drink product placement in Cobra, he returns as a cop called Ray Tango. Along with Kurt Russell’s Gabe Cash, he’s framed, imprisoned […]
Cobra
Sylvester Stallone writes and stars in a film about a cop who’s tough, impulsive, hot-headed and totally un-employable. He takes on a death cult who are responsible for a string of […]
On iPlayer: Behind the Candelabra
Currently available on iPlayer, Behind the Candelabra sees the young Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) hired by Las Vegas superstar Liberace (Michael Douglas), whose controlling behaviour consumes their relationship. Like Foxcatcher, but not repressed. Not […]
Brighton Rock
This British film noir from 1947 stars Richard Attenborough as a Brighton gangster named Pinkie, who marries a murder witness in order to keep her quiet. It was released in […]
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