Top of the Flops 3: The Lone Ranger
In a big screen adaptation of the classic TV series, Armie Hammer plays the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp plays his friend Tonto, a Native American stereotype. The stereotyping of Tonto […]
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Top of the Flops 2: Waterworld
“The future… The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth with water. Those who survived have adapted, to a new world.” So begins sci-fi/adventure/Kevin Costner movie Waterworld, one of […]
Top of the Flops: John Carter
Welcome to the first in a new series of reviews where we look back at some of the biggest box office flops in history to decide if they really deserved […]
High Fidelity
High Fidelity follows a grumpy record store owner as he talks us through all his breakups with non-stop music references. And like Barry Manilow, it turns out not to live up to its […]
Block-heads
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Stan Laurel and Oliver hardy, a pair of soldiers in World War One. But when the war ends, no-one tells Stan, and 20 years […]
Boys
Set in either a boys boarding school or some sort of facility for guys with curtain haircuts, Boys is a 1996 film in which Lukas Haas finds Winona Ryder unconscious in […]
The Fly II
The Fly II opens with a birth similar to the gruesome dream sequence in the original, but this time it’s for real and it’s the offspring of the original mad […]
Mystery Team
Mystery Team is the big-screen outing of internet sketch trio Derrick Comedy – Dominic Dierkes, DC Pierson and Donald Glover (who wrote for 30 Rock, starred in Community and makes music as Childish Gambino). […]
Let’s Make Love
Marilyn Monroe reprises her trademark role of “sexy lady” for this 1960 rom-com. The nonsense plot involves a billionaire tycoon (Yves Montand) posing as an impersonator of himself in order […]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
From 1972, this is the fourth instalment in the Planet of the Apes series – not to be confused with South Thanet of the Apes, a documentary about UKIP supporters. […]
