Whitney comes around one year after 2017’s Whitney: Can I Be Me? which was a fascinating documentary about the lady, but even though I didn’t particularly care for her music, I’m always fascinated in a documentary to see what makes people in the public eye tick. The opening with Whitney Houston singing How Will I […]
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Sicario 2: Soldado was a film for which I didn’t even know was planned, until the first teaser came out, so I was certainly looking forward to this, as the first movie was great. Plus, given the weather, I was tempted to ask the cinema to turn off the air-conditioning, so it would actually FEEL […]
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They Live Special Edition is one of four John Carpenterclassics being re-released in late 2018, on Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and DVD, and this is the second of the four I haven’t seen before. The late, great Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrowdy Roddy Piper takes the lead as day-labourer John Nada, who susses out that there’s a lot of weird […]
The Fog Special Edition is one of four John Carpenter classics being re-released in late 2018, on Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and DVD, and this is one of the four I haven’t seen before. Beginning with a creepy old sea captain (John Houseman) telling a creepy story just before midnight, about a mysterious fog which caused […]
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Edie stars Sheila Hancock in the titular role as an elderly lady who’s been caring for her husband for as long as she can remember, since he had a stroke years earlier, but once widowed, she gets to the point where it’s time to sell up and movie on, and after looking back on old […]
Troll 2 is set in a town called Nilbog (which is ‘goblin’ backwards), where the Waits family participate in an early Air BNB-style situation as they go to live in a house that’s clearly been inhabited by people affected by the trolls, and now they’re all about to fall victim to the same curse, but […]
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Troll takes place in San Francisco, preying on the residents of an apartment block, which is actually the enchanted gateway to the ancient world of Troll… not that they know it yet. This is also the first time Harry Potter appeared onscreen… No, not Daniel Radcliffe, but the father and son (Noah Hathaway and Michael […]
Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear was released in 1998 in the US, but didn’t see the light of day in the UK until the following year, which was quite a regular occurence back then, as there wasn’t the internet to force the hand of the studios to release films around the world on the […]
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The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, in 2001, but there’s a less than pleasant odyssey coming up for Parvana (Saara Chaudry), as the Taliban are in charge, and there are many threats to kill each other being made by these moronic hot-heads. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor […]
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Salvador features James Woods at his manic best was waring tensions between different factions heat up, and everythings about to reach a tipping point where even if you’re a resident and you don’t have a cedula, your grave situation may actually lead you into one. In other to avoid that, Woods, as journalist Richard Boyle, […]
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