Death Becomes Her
Madeleine and Helen (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) will stop at nothing to stay looking young, so when they reach the limits of plastic surgery they’re tempted to drink an […]
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The world’s most infamous reptile is back for round two as team Monarch tags him in. Monarch in this case is a crypto-zoological organisation with the same logo as Extinction […]
The Sound Barrier
David Lean directs this fictionalised tale of the early attempts to break the sound barrier. It follows the head of an aviation company, John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson) and his daughter […]
The Death of Dick Long
Pink Freud are finishing up band practice one night when one of them asks: “Y’all wanna get weird?” And then it does. The amusingly titled The Death of Dick Long […]
Brief Encounter
A bored housewife (Celia Johnson) encounters a handsome doctor (Trevor Howard) at the train station in the appropriately named Milford. But these acquaintances on a train have a profound effect […]
Hobson’s Choice
Shoe shop owner Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is intent on marrying off his two younger daughters (Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) while keeping his eldest, Maggie (Brenda de Banzie), to […]
Goodfellas
A bunch of low-level crooks behave terribly for two and a half hours. While the subject matter, title and running time suggests a Godfather-style crime epic, Goodfellas is actually every […]
Hairspray (1988)
It’s Baltimore in 1963 and all the local teens are going crazy for the Corny Collins Show which features kids in the area busting their best moves. There’s only one […]
Gotti
John Travolta plays the eponymous real-life mob boss in Gotti, very much this decade’s Battlefield Earth. Both films star a mad-haired Travolta, lost millions of dollars, and saw their parent […]
Rocketman
In this biographical musical from the producer of Gnomeo and Juliet, Taron Egerton takes centre stage as the Rocketman himself, Elton John, not to be confused with Rocket Raccoon or […]
