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 […]
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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 […]
Video Nasty 28: The Last House on the Left
Regular readers will know how much I love Wes Craven, the pioneer of horror cinema and birdwatcher who sadly died from brain cancer yesterday at the age of 76. Let’s […]
Star Trek: Insurrection
In the ninth Star Trek film, the crew of the Enterprise pursue a malfunctioning Data (Brent Spiner) to the planet of the Ba’ku, a racially homogeneous society that have shunned technology […]
You’ve Been Trumped
As Donald Trump pulls ahead in the Republican polls, let’s see what happened when he tried to build a luxury golf course in Scotland. You’ve Been Trumped is a 2011 […]
The Harder They Come
Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of Jamaican independence. More professional websites might have thought this through and reviewed a Jamaican movie yesterday. They might even have bothered to put a […]
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 […]
