How to Marry a Millionaire
If you want to know how to marry a millionaire you could ask Jerry Hall, or you could watch this film, in which three young women (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable […]
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The Basketball Diaries
Based on the memoirs of Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a promising high school basketball player and writer, who becomes addicted to heroin. This 1995 drama starts out like Saturday […]
The Inglorious Bastards
The Inglorious Bastards is an Italian movie from 1978, not to be confused with Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds or even Inglorious Bar Staff, a film I just made up. Starring Reese Wetherspoons. A loose […]
Song of the Sea
Two young siblings face a magical journey home in this 2014 animation, based on the Irish myth of the selkie. Like Inside Out, the film concerns childhood sadness, but unlike […]
The Departed
The story of an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a mob insider (Matt Damon), The Departed is the best film about a rat and a mole since The Wind in […]
Cliffhanger
Rocky goes to the Rockies in this 1993 mountaineering actioner starring Sylvester Stallone. When a group of incompetent criminals steal three suitcases full of cash, which were being transported from a place […]
Peeping Tom
There’s a great moment in Scre4m, during one of Ghostface’s deadly games of horror trivia: “Name the movie that started the slasher craze: Halloween, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Last House […]
Spirited Away
I regret to say that I’ve never seen an anime film. Given the number of fans the genre has even in the West, and the critical acclaim it receives, this […]
Martyrs
Aaauuuuggghh. That’s the sound of me just having watched 2008 horror film Martyrs. From the New French Extremity movement, Martyrs is ostensibly the story of a woman (Mylène Jampanoï) seeking revenge on her torturers, […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 7: Woody Allen’s New Nightmare
A belated happy birthday to Woody Allen, who turned 80 this week. Let’s pretend I timed this post deliberately, as I review another of his best films and another of […]
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