Growing up in the 80s, when I wasn’t crimping my hair and listening to Duran Duran berating me for being “about as easy as a nuclear war”*, I was worrying about surviving one. I still am! But while the world’s heading towards its doom right now, stop digging that fallout shelter for a minute –… Dr Strangelove, back with a 4k restoration and probably Twitter’s longest ever hashtag Read More
Prevenge 4 stars
Sometimes it feels like our babies, even before birth, are intent on taking over everything, our bodies and our minds. Factor in the increasing number of ways mothers-to-be are told their needs must always be secondary to those of their unborn children and it’s no surprise that we’ve now got a film which pushes this idea to the max…. Prevenge Read More
Burn After Reading 4.5 stars
“Jesus what a clusterfuck” is the CIA boss’s fitting assessment of the situation at the end of Burn After Reading, after a group of inadequates have taken just enough time off from screwing each other to create a bloody, criminal mess that is entirely of their own making and results in death and serious injury but hopefully a… Burn After Reading Read More
Dark Star 4 stars
Set in the 22nd century, Dark Star chronicles the lives of the crew of the eponymous spaceship – already in space for two decades, they are tasked with destroying unstable planets so Earth can potentially colonise other planets nearby. Contact between the Dark Star and Earth is perfunctory and occasional at best. Mission Control back on Earth make it clear… Dark Star Read More