Der müde Tod
A young woman (Lil Dagover) bargains with Death to save the live of her beloved (Walter Janssen). She is sent to three historical periods where she is required to save […]
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The Red Turtle
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Finding Nemo, turtles have a reputation in Hollywood of being crass or stoned. As ever, it’s up to a foreign film to redress […]
Baywatch
Hollywood continues its obsession with nostalgic, ironic reboots of ’80s TV shows with Baywatch, which remains the most ’80s TV show of all time despite being on in the ’90s. […]
Postcards from the Edge
Meryl Streep stars as Susanne, an actor approaching middle age and recently out of rehab, trying to navigate her way through the turbulent waters of the Hollywood film industry under […]
The Levelling
Not to be confused with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening or James Wan’s The Conjuring, this is Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling. Sorry for the confusioning. Like Raw, this is the story […]
Possessed
Joan Crawford stars as Louise, a nurse looking after the sick wife of Dean (Raymond Massey). Meanwhile she enjoys a passionate affair with his business partner David (Van Heflin) who […]
The Handmaiden
From Park Chan-wook, the South Korean mastermind behind Oldboy and Stoker, comes the best film about a handmaiden since The Phantom Menace. Ostensibly the story of a pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri) […]
Lady Macbeth
The young Katherine (Florence Pugh) is sold into marriage to an older man (Paul Hilton) in this new British drama. That Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novel, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, has […]
Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who can’t get a job because he takes his roles so seriously. With his reputation preceding him he resolves to wipe the slate clean […]
Mindhorn
A washed-up actor from ’80s detective show Mindhorn (Julian Barratt) must work with the police when a suspected serial killer (Russell Tovey) demands to speak to Detective Mindhorn. It’s Galaxy Quest meets Alan […]
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