Top Gun: Maverick
Maverick (Tom Cruise) is back in the movie that should have been called Top Gun: Cruise Control, if Speed 2 hadn’t beaten him to it on an ocean liner. This […]
Maverick (Tom Cruise) is back in the movie that should have been called Top Gun: Cruise Control, if Speed 2 hadn’t beaten him to it on an ocean liner. This […]
An understaffed police department opens its ranks to recruits of any gender, age or weight in 1984’s Police Academy, AKA If…. meets On the Buses. This comedy sees a new […]
Adapted from Robert A. Heinlein’s humans vs bugs novel, Starship Troopers is set in a techno fascist future where the director of Showgirls is still allowed to make movies. Director Paul […]
A porcine fighter pilot eludes Italian fascist swine in Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Hayao Miyazaki’s ode to old Hollywood follows the Bogartian bounty hunter through a series of hog nights […]
Patrick Swayze shows off his mambo skills in the Catskills in this 1987 dance-and-abortion classic. There are two interesting things about Dirty Dancing and they’re both Gilmore Girls related: the choreography […]
Released on International Women’s Day, Captain Marvel has been ineffectually shunned by misogynists who object to the idea that women can be Captain Marvels – a reaction that puts the […]
If there’s one thing more depressing than war films, it’s military films that aren’t war films. Because that’s just militarism for its own sake; the cinematic equivalent of a ceremonial […]
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. […]
Tom Cruise plays “Maverick”, the best pilot in the Navy. Wait… the Navy? Surely you mean the Air Force. No, it’s definitely the Navy, I checked. Maybe there’s a Cruise connection there […]