The Mad Max Quadrilogy
As Mad Max: Fury Road roars into cinemas, let’s take a look at George Miller’s dystopian franchise, set in a post-apocalyptic Australia where all that survived armageddon is leather. Mad […]
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Licence to Kill
Timothy Dalton makes his second and final appearance as James Bond in Licence to Kill, which is English for License to Kill. Dalton’s Bond is a more serious character than […]
Downfall
Today marks 70 years since Nazi Germany admitted defeat in World War Two and surrendered unconditionally to the allies. Downfall documents the final days of the Third Reich inside Hitler’s […]
Doomsday
As the polls close on today’s tedious general election, let’s take a look at an equally unexciting movie – Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. I’m a big Neil Marshall fan – Dog […]
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a stupid name for a great film. Plot-wise, the less you know the better (to quote the name of a DJ Shadow album). So vaguely speaking, it’s about […]
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film, directed by filmmaker, birdwatcher and George Carlin lookalike Wes Craven. Bill Pullman plays an anthropologist sent by a pharmaceutical company to […]
Black Mama, White Mama
When a pair of bickering prisoners (Pam Grier and Margaret Markov) make their escape, they end up on the run – but they’re handcuffed to one another. Resentful of each […]
Batman (1966)
It’s currently very unfashionable to mix superheroes with campy fun, and as much as I would have loved to see Hugh Jackman spouting wolf-related puns, or an Iron Man suit […]
Great Balls of Fire!
Films with exclamation marks in their title are generally to be approached with caution, whether its ABBA musical Mamma Mia! or Stallone comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Jerry […]
The Sting
Paul Newman and Robert Redford execute the perfect long con in George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper. Nothing to do with the boring musician of the same name, The Sting reunites the […]
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