Freaky Friday was a 1972 book by Mary Rodgers that fitted the Disney family-friendly world perfectly, and so a 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster was made. The tale of a mother and daughter who swap bodies to understand each other’s points of view was a massive hit for the studio. So much…
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The Last Showgirl
Las Vegas has been used as a backdrop to so many movies, mainly for the glitz and glamour. The Last Showgirl, from Gia Coppola, the granddaughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, has taken a different approach. This is a film about the death of old Vegas, with the kind of cabaret show that is…
Borderlands
Going into Borderlands, I knew very little. I knew it was based on a video game, but that was about it. I have never played the game or even seen the game. I knew it was directed by Eli Roth, who is usually associated with very gory horrors and was responsible for the torture porn…
Halloween Ends
In 2018, co-writer and director David Gordon Green gave us a new sequel to John Carpenter’s classic horror, Halloween. What made this film different from other sequels was that it dismissed everything that happened after the original and that this was going to finally close the book on Michael Myers. We all thought it ended…
Everything Everywhere All at Once
It seems that this year’s trend is the multiverse. We’ve already had Spider-Man: No Way Home; last week, Doctor Strange entered the Multiverse of Madness and later this year, we have another Spider-Man movie with the second in the Spider-verse saga. This week, however, we have a film with no connection to Marvel, with a…
Knives Out
Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Frank Oz Written by: Rian Johnson Running Time: 130 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 27th November 2019 Writer and director took a heavy beating from fanboys after…
Halloween
Director: David Gordon Green Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Haluk Bliginer, Will Patton, Rhian Rees Written by: David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley, (based on the characters created) John Carpenter and Debra Hill Running Time: 106 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 19th October 2018 It is…
78/52
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Peter Bogdanovich, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Danny Elfman, Bret Easton Ellis, Guillermo del Toro Written by Alexandre O. Philippe Running Time: 91 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 3rd November 2017 When you talk about horror films, there are a few movies that always…
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