Planet of the Apes (1968)
Charlton Heston plays Taylor, an astronaut on a long mission away from earth. After 2000 earth years (1.5 years to them) he and his crew crash-land on a strange planet, where […]
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Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact is directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also plays Riker; following in the actor-director footsteps of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. Suffice to say, he’s better at […]
Nymphomaniac Volumes I and II
Lars Von Trier once again blurs the line between film and endurance test in this two-parter – the most unpleasant pair since the Kray twins. It follows Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) […]
Star Trek: Generations
This is the handover film in the Trek franchise where the reins are passed from the ageing Captain Kirk to sprightly, young Captain Picard. Set about 80 years after the end of The […]
East Is East
Adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, East Is East is the story of a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. Om Puri plays fanatical patriarch George Khan – or Genghis […]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino’s fourth feature (sub-category: terrible title) is Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which I will review in chapters like Tarantino has used in every bloody movie. Chapter I: Fox Force […]
Blade
This is a 1998 comic book movie about the half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snipes) kicking the (un)living shit out of some vamps. And by vamps I mean vampires, not the British […]
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary that follows The Rolling Stones, who are inexplicably still touring today, even though Keith Richards looks like he died some time before they started […]
The Mist
Set almost entirely in a shop, Dawn of the Dead-style, The Mist is a 2007 horror dirge about a bunch of idiots hiding from some mist. “Would the malevolent mist […]
The Undefeated
As the Civil War draws to a close, John Wayne plays John Henry Thomas, a Yankee colonel who wants to remove his battle-weary men from the military and earn them some money […]
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