Cerebral… Movie #323 2020: Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 22 Nov 202022 Nov 2020 Ugh, look at the depth in the above shot. It's just gorgeous. And I bet you can tell already where this review is going to go. Dog Day Afternoon is…
Classics… Movie #322 2020: Rope (1948) 22 Nov 202020 Nov 2020 Now we're out of our delayed Halloween phase, let's look at a couple of run-of-the-mill movies before the debut of the festive season, shall we? Back to Hitchcock we go,…
Action… Movie #316 2020: North By Northwest (1959) 19 Nov 202017 Nov 2020 After being phenomenally gobsmacked by Rear Window, I began to realise that Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favourite directors. I'm not forgetting that his techniques were sometimes questionable, and…
Classics… Movie #301 2020: Miss Congeniality (2000) 11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 Is there anyone more reliable than Sandra Bullock? I mean, she's had her share of average to bad movies (All About Steve is perhaps my least favourite film on the…
Classics… Movie #298 2020: Mallrats (1995) 10 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 What do we need right now? Stupid movies that are purely there to entertain. Mallrats is the 1995 sophomore movie from the now pretty famous Kevin Smith. Only Clerks came…
Classics… Movie #290 2020: Sister Act (1992) 3 Nov 202027 Oct 2020 Classic. Funny. Daring. Entertaining. That's Sister Act. A young(er) Whoopi Goldberg plays singer/waitress Deloris in this early-nineties movie musical. We begin the movie with a murder - not what I…
Classics… Movie #281 2020: The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 27 Oct 202019 Oct 2020 What a stupid - and stupidly iconic - movie. I mean, who needs all of these legends in one movie? It's an LGBTQ person's dream cast, and that's all I…
Classics… Movie #270 2020: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) 8 Oct 20202 Oct 2020 Remember when I said I'd not seen any John Hughes movies? Well, now I've seen two! But what makes Ferris Bueller's Day Off just about the most iconic teen/coming-of-age story…
Action… Movie #264 2020: Demolition Man (1993) 26 Sep 202022 Sep 2020 According to my girlfriend, this movie is iconic because it's one of those obviously terrible movies that still stands the test of time. But is she right? A 1993 classic,…
Classics… Movie #260 2020: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) 18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 ''A classic!'' Those are usually the first two words you hear when someone describes My Big Fat Greek Wedding. So why hadn't I seen it before now? I don't know.…
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