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Wicked Little Letters (2023) Review
It is the 1920’s and in the picturesque seaside village of Littlehampton, trouble is brewing. Spinster Edith Swan begins receiving anonymous, obscene letters, which her father thinks are coming from their young Irish neighbour, Rose Gooding. Gooding denies sending the malicious mail, though few in the village believe her. It is up to female police officer Gladys Moss, alongside a couple of sympathetic ladies, to prove Gooding’s innocence and catch the real culprit before she
Mar 8, 20242 min read


Miracles (1989) Review
It is the 1930’s, and naïve country boy Kuo Cheng-Wah has just arrived in Hong Kong. A violent gang war has broken out over the city,...
Feb 15, 20243 min read


Shall We Dance? (1996) Review
Shohei Sugiyama is a dispirited salaryman who has lost his lust for life. Despite having a wife and daughter, a nice house and a steady...
Jan 23, 20243 min read


Poor Things (2023) Review
Bella Baxter is a woman with the mind of a child- literally. The product of a Frankensteinesque experiment by eccentric surgeon Godwin...
Jan 22, 20243 min read


Saltburn (2023) Review
It is 2006, and scholarship student Oliver Quick has just arrived at Oxford. He doesn’t fit in with the upper-class atmosphere and has no...
Dec 23, 20234 min read


The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) Review
Bettie Page is a young brunette bombshell from Nashville, Tennessee. Life in her home state was far from pleasant, so the infectiously...
Dec 18, 20233 min read


Insignificance (1985) Review
One evening in the 1950’s, Albert Einstein is holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, struggling with a calculation. He is interrupted by...
Dec 12, 20233 min read


Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) Review
Machisu is an artist, and has been as long as he can remember. As a child, his mother died, followed a few years later by his father. His...
Nov 14, 20233 min read


Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) Review
By the late 1970’s, Elvis Presley had grown tired of the demands and stresses of fame. Seeking respite, he swapped places with an Elvis...
Nov 13, 20233 min read


Evil Dead Rise (2023) Review
Ellie is a single mother living with her three children- Danny, Brigit and Kassie- in a rundown apartment block. Her sister Beth- a...
Aug 19, 20233 min read


Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Review
It is 1944 and adventuring archaeologist Indiana Jones is in a familiar predicament: the Nazis have caught him attempting to scupper their nefarious plans. After breaking free of their vile clutches, Jones and his accomplice Basil Shaw discover the fascists have found the Antikythera mechanism, a device created by Archimedes that supposedly reveals time fissures. Jones escapes, foils the enemy's schemes and steals the mechanism- seemingly putting the matter to bed. Some 25 ye
Jul 17, 20234 min read


The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Review
It's interesting how risqué and bawdy some Hollywood, silent-era comedies made before the invention and adoption of the Hays Code were....
Jul 9, 20233 min read


The Late Shift (1996) Review
It is 1991 and rumors abound that Johnny Carson will soon retire from hosting The Tonight Show. It is clear to the NBC executives and...
Jul 9, 20233 min read


George Washington Slept Here (1942) Review
Years before Cary Grant and Myrna Loy tried to build their dreamhouse and decades before Tom Hanks and Shelley Long slipped into their...
Jul 9, 20233 min read


Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) Review
In the early 1970's, archaeologists at a dig in the USSR make an incredible find: a golden helmet that once belonged to Alexander the...
Jul 9, 20233 min read


Santa Sangre (1989)
Fenix is a troubled young man. As a child in the circus, he experienced extreme brutality and grotesquery first-hand; as a result he has...
Jul 8, 20233 min read


The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath (1976) Review
It is New Year's Eve in Moscow and Zhenya is about to get married. To celebrate his upcoming nuptials and to ring in the new year, he and...
Jul 7, 20232 min read


True Stories (1986) Review
Virgil, Texas is a sleepy little town as American as apple pie and just as sweet. The townsfolk are preparing for a so-called...
Jul 7, 20233 min read
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