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Panic Room

December 29, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

A former child star and future grownup star play a mother and daughter (Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart) trapped in a panic room after their new house is invaded by […]

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The Hunt (2020)

December 2, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Not to be confused with the Thomas Vinterberg movie, The Hunt is a Blumhouse thriller where liberal elites take cancel culture to the extreme by hunting conservative “deplorables” for sport. Ironically […]

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#HateFilms: Heat

November 17, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]

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#HateFilms: Ghost

November 14, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

In 2014 Michael Owen tweeted that he’d only seen 8 films. And if you think that’s weird you should see Ghost. The late Patrick Swayze is a ghost in this […]

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Memories of Murder

October 10, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder would have passed most of us by in 2003, coming a few months before South Korean cinema had its international breakthrough with Oldboy. Following Parasite‘s Oscar […]

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The Call

August 5, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]

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As Good as Dead

July 19, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

The eminently torturable Cary Elwes is targeted by neo-Nazis in Jonathan Mossek’s As Good as Dead. This thankless thriller opened on a single screen in 2010, back when Nazism was […]

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The Stranger

July 14, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) is an apparently normal history teacher-cum-clock enthusiast who is newly wedded to the lovely Mary (Loretta Young). Little does she know that her new hubby […]

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The Red Violin

May 18, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

In Paris a rare violin is up for auction – the last work of legendary violin maker Nicolò Bussotti (Carlo Cecci). This is the story of how it got there. […]

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No Country for Old Men

April 22, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]

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