Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta plays an Italian-American called Tony in New York in the late 70s. He faces the drudgery of day-to-day life working in a hardware store, going nowhere, until Saturday […]
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The Panic in Needle Park
This 1971 drama follows a group of heroin addicts in New York City’s “Needle Park”, and features the first starring role by a certain Al Pacino. A candid representation of an urban underbelly seldom […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 6: Woody’s Dead
The Jewish High Holy Days seem like the perfect time to bring back my Woody Allen double-bills, where I review one of the auteur’s best films and one of his worst. Crimes […]
Deadfall
In 2012’s Deadfall, a pair of siblings (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) are on the run after shooting a cop, an ex-con (Charlie Hunnam) heads home to his parents (Sissy […]
Das Experiment
Das Experiment is a German thriller from 2001, whose title literally translates as The Experiment. You’re welcome. Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film is based on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment: a group of men were placed […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This classic follows a dysfunctional couple – a history professor (Richard Burton) and the daughter of the university president (Elizabeth Taylor) – on a drunken night of arguing, as a […]
Star Trek: Nemesis
We reach the end of our Star Trek voyage with Nemesis, the 2002 finalé in which Picard (Patrick Stewart) confronts his evil clone Shinzon (Tom Hardy). You might be thinking: but Tom Hardy […]
Notorious
This is a biopic of one of the biggest stars of rap, literally, the legendary Biggie Smalls, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., played by Jamal Woolard. It begins with his fatal shooting […]
Blade II
Some time after Blade, that old bloke who we all thought was dead is back, and that woman we thought would take his place is gone to make way for a new […]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
It’s hard to imagine a time before Steven Soderbergh had directed a thousand movies. But in 1989, he made his first feature, Sex, Lies, and Videotape; the Palme d’Or-winning arthouse drama that […]
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