Following up on his surreal comedy debut Sorry To Bother You, writer Boots Reily’s I Love Boosters somehow didn’t reach the same audience; it’s a super-ambitious, borderline incoherent tirade about ...
The original Star Wars was wonderfully economical about this. A glance at a strange face, a battered doorway, a Jawa carrying something of doubtful provenance, and suddenly the galaxy seemed to extend ...
In today’s turbulent times, however, Ali G himself finds himself under attack for cultural appropriation, and that battle is part of the narrative here; the publicity campaign for this film has ...
Anthony Shaffer’s The Wicker Man is generally voted to be one of the best, if not the very best, of British horror films . That’s quite an accolade, because Robin Hardy’s thriller is quite an odd ...
t feels like the world is stuck in some kind of limbo right now; we know that the gradual Epstein files are going to provide probably the biggest political change in anyone’s living memory, but ...
Yikes. The last time I checked in with an adaptation of Stone Cold Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility was back in 1995, when Ang Lee’s leads were played by Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan ...
My enthusiasm continues undiminished for Season 2 of The Paper, the same-universe follow-up to beloved sitcom The Office which is still a streaming staple; this new show on NBC Peacock had big shoes ...
I’m as gutted as everyone else by the death of star Sam Neill; I’ve highlighted a few personal favourite performances in films as diverse as Omen III, Dean Spanley and Possession, but an ideal film to ...
Of course, no two views are the same; from a battered VHS, to recuts (Redux) and now this Final Cut on blu-ray. As the viewer changes, so does the film; this latest cut keeps the lengthy French ...
Two years after winning her Academy Award, Sorvino did some of her best work in this Touchstone Pictures comedy which pairs her with Friends star Lisa Kudrow. While everything from Bill and Ted to ...
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A fairly brisk 104 minutes, The Young Ones is far more of a musical than you might expect; it’s not just a ‘putting on a show’ story with diegetic music, but a proper West Side Story number where ...