#HateFilms: Jurassic Park
In our third film which Michael Owen wishes-he-hadn’t-saurus, flea circus proprietor John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) behaves like a billionaire Justin Lee Collins as he sets out to bring back the […]
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Jazz Odyssey: All Night Long
Welcome to Jazz Odyssey, a week of jazz-related film reviews because this blog isn’t nearly alienating enough as it is. No spoilers but these include a thriller, a documentary, a […]
Magic
Someone’s dummy starts to take over their life in Magic: The Melania Trump Story. Despite appearances, 1978’s Magic is not a haunted doll movie (Annabelle, The Boy, that episode of Buffy) but […]
Chaplin
Richard Attenborough returns to the biopic, this time charting the life of silent comedy star Charlie Chaplin. Without a doubt the best thing about this film is Robert Downey Jr’s […]
Gandhi
“No man’s life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape […]
Brighton Rock
This British film noir from 1947 stars Richard Attenborough as a Brighton gangster named Pinkie, who marries a murder witness in order to keep her quiet. It was released in […]
