Boys
Set in either a boys boarding school or some sort of facility for guys with curtain haircuts, Boys is a 1996 film in which Lukas Haas finds Winona Ryder unconscious in […]
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Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 7: Woody Allen’s New Nightmare
A belated happy birthday to Woody Allen, who turned 80 this week. Let’s pretend I timed this post deliberately, as I review another of his best films and another of […]
Great Balls of Fire!
Films with exclamation marks in their title are generally to be approached with caution, whether its ABBA musical Mamma Mia! or Stallone comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Jerry […]
Heathers
Westerburg High School is dominated by three croquet-playing, party-going, geek-bullying girls all called Heather (Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk and Kim Walke), with the reluctant Veronica (Winona Ryder) in tow. But […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
In 1897, London solicitor Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) travels to Transylvania to meet his new client Count Dracula (Gary Oldman). Dracula falls in love with Harker’s fiancée Mina (Winona Ryder) when he […]
Homefront
Not to be confused with the American TV show Homeland, the British TV show Homefront or the hardware/garden shop Homebase, this is the Jason Statham movie Homefront. The screenplay is by Sylvester Stallone, who […]
A Scanner Darkly
Before Before Midnight, Richard Linklater wrote and directed A Scanner Darkly, a true cinematic oddity from 2006. Like most good sci-fi it’s based on a Philip K. Dick novel, and […]
