Happy Death Day
If you happened to watch Groundhog Day and thought “I wish this was a lame horror film”, then Happy Death Day is the movie for you. This slasher-comedy stars Jessica Rothe as […]
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The Ritual
Director David Bruckner will be known among horror fans for the most memorable chapters of both The Signal and V/H/S. Now he’s back with this tale of a Swedish hiking holiday gone wrong. […]
JFK
Oliver Stone directs this story of the search for truth in the years following the assassination of John F Kennedy. It follows New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) […]
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Twenty years on from the original airing of the ground-breaking Brass Eye, a raft of unseen clips that never made it onto the small screen are resurrected on the big […]
LFF: You Were Never Really Here
One movie causing a stir at the London Film Festival is Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, not to be confused with I’m Still Here, even though both films feature Joaquin […]
LFF: The Final Year
This documentary, showing at the London Film Festival, follows Obama’s foreign policy team in the final year of his presidency. For any young people reading, “foreign policy” is something that […]
Mother!
I’ve long recommended exercising caution around films with exclamation marks in their title, whether it’s Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Mamma Mia!, or Darren Aronofsky’s Noah! Ok that […]
The Elephant Man
When you think of David Lynch it’s easy to think of films like the painfully long and totally nonsensical Inland Empire, and forget how great he is at directing more […]
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Set a couple of hundred years after Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Exodus follows Moses, the adoptive son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, where the Jews are enslaved. But Moses has an […]
Napoleon
Charting the meteoric rise of one of the most influential figures in European history, from his humble beginnings in Corsica to conquering Italy for the French, this 1927 epic breaks […]
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