Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.
Have you seen The Lady Vanishes?
That, but with slightly less courage in its convictions. And largely a waste of a bank holiday cast. Its nice to see Keira on the other side of a Guardian desk though
Have you seen The Lady Vanishes?
That, but with slightly less courage in its convictions. And largely a waste of a bank holiday cast. Its nice to see Keira on the other side of a Guardian desk though
Weepy where Leslie Bibb's widow runs from her lousy Mom to her aunt's farm with her kids and slowly heals her trauma by singing to cows and getting locked in a cheese fridge overnight with a maturing-like-a-fine-wine Josh Duhamel. Even her kids know he's too good for her
Weepy where Leslie Bibb's widow runs from her lousy Mom to her aunt's farm with her kids and slowly heals her trauma by singing to cows and getting locked in a cheese fridge overnight with a maturing-like-a-fine-wine Josh Duhamel. Even her kids know he's too good for her
Smashing, properly creepy haunted house horror. A year after her sister is murdered, blind occult expert visits the house she died in where her bro-in-law lives with his new girlfriend. She also brings a wooden golem. Perfectly played with one killer jump scare and spot on final shot
Smashing, properly creepy haunted house horror. A year after her sister is murdered, blind occult expert visits the house she died in where her bro-in-law lives with his new girlfriend. She also brings a wooden golem. Perfectly played with one killer jump scare and spot on final shot
He is a chef and the son of a small town baker
She is an accountant who does the books in her Mum's small town bakery.
The parents have been feuding for years over a pumpkin pie competition, so this is Pie-Romeo and Pie-Juliet, without a pie-balcony and pie-double suicide
He is a chef and the son of a small town baker
She is an accountant who does the books in her Mum's small town bakery.
The parents have been feuding for years over a pumpkin pie competition, so this is Pie-Romeo and Pie-Juliet, without a pie-balcony and pie-double suicide
Boilerplate US snarky millenial snarks about for a day and then contemplates suicide just as Langston Fishburne (yes!) tells the world they are living in a simulation about to end. High concept, sloppy execution: it doesn't know what to do with its metaphysics so just snarks
Boilerplate US snarky millenial snarks about for a day and then contemplates suicide just as Langston Fishburne (yes!) tells the world they are living in a simulation about to end. High concept, sloppy execution: it doesn't know what to do with its metaphysics so just snarks
He's a door-to-door travelling wind turbine salesman off to sell in Aruba
She's a teacher who has taken the gig as a babysitter for his daughter
Before you can say Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya... They're into each other, snog and he gets a free babysitter
He's a door-to-door travelling wind turbine salesman off to sell in Aruba
She's a teacher who has taken the gig as a babysitter for his daughter
Before you can say Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya... They're into each other, snog and he gets a free babysitter
A silent transition film that has the feel of a whole serial in an hour and tropes of a dark house horror, without being scary. I sadly guessed the deal from the start, but Creighton Hale's double takes at the weirdness are still fun. Thelma Todd is icing on the cake
A silent transition film that has the feel of a whole serial in an hour and tropes of a dark house horror, without being scary. I sadly guessed the deal from the start, but Creighton Hale's double takes at the weirdness are still fun. Thelma Todd is icing on the cake
a) it doesn't look anything like a pumpkin
b) Stan Winston can make a grotesque looking creature but can he direct a film? (Technically yes, successfully, not so much)
Kids in cabin accidentally kill a kid whose Dad messes with force wot not should mess. Its a mess, no kidding
a) it doesn't look anything like a pumpkin
b) Stan Winston can make a grotesque looking creature but can he direct a film? (Technically yes, successfully, not so much)
Kids in cabin accidentally kill a kid whose Dad messes with force wot not should mess. Its a mess, no kidding
Black family notwithstanding this remakes the original beat by beat, if having a more depressingly social reason for covering up June Squibb's death.The kids are a mixed bag,luckily Nicole Ritchie knows how to zhuzh up a comedy but broadly pointless
Black family notwithstanding this remakes the original beat by beat, if having a more depressingly social reason for covering up June Squibb's death.The kids are a mixed bag,luckily Nicole Ritchie knows how to zhuzh up a comedy but broadly pointless
It's a competitive kite flying romance! Sadly it doesn't trust the drama inherent in competitive kite flying and so plays around with a bog standard widower dad and the babysitter plot and only occasionally sitting down and discussing aerodynamics and kite shapes
It's a competitive kite flying romance! Sadly it doesn't trust the drama inherent in competitive kite flying and so plays around with a bog standard widower dad and the babysitter plot and only occasionally sitting down and discussing aerodynamics and kite shapes
Australian made stab at the Tom Holt magical whimsical work satire, set in a quite Brisbaney London. The Jim Henson shop does the fantasy stuff well, and a pretty stacked supporting cast commit but the lead couple never quite gels and its unclear who the audience is
Australian made stab at the Tom Holt magical whimsical work satire, set in a quite Brisbaney London. The Jim Henson shop does the fantasy stuff well, and a pretty stacked supporting cast commit but the lead couple never quite gels and its unclear who the audience is
The top pulse pounding theological epic of'53 is not a bad primer on the start of the Reformation even if it is inevitably lots of people standing in rooms and arguing.Despite being deemed a heretic at a number of points he doesn't even get burnt at the stake.Banned in Quebec
The top pulse pounding theological epic of'53 is not a bad primer on the start of the Reformation even if it is inevitably lots of people standing in rooms and arguing.Despite being deemed a heretic at a number of points he doesn't even get burnt at the stake.Banned in Quebec
It's a dating app romance where she is the smart app designer and he is the feckless boss who is constantly belittled by his Mum because he is feckless.It would be fun if there wasn't the certainty of the feckless man getting together with the smart woman hanging over it
It's a dating app romance where she is the smart app designer and he is the feckless boss who is constantly belittled by his Mum because he is feckless.It would be fun if there wasn't the certainty of the feckless man getting together with the smart woman hanging over it