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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Movies like The Muppet Christmas Carol offer kids (big ones and little ones) an escape into a world where perfect Christmases can happen and everyone gets a second chance. More…

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Misery

Have you met Annie Wilkes? She’s Paul Sheldon’s #1 fan and she’s enough to make John Hinckley Jr. and Mark David Chapman seem completely sane by comparison. More…

Misery
In The Name Of The Father

Jim Sheridan’s biopic of Gerry Conlon, an Irishman accused and jailed by the British government for a crime he didn’t commit, is both a harrowing and powerful piece of cinema. More…

In The Name Of The Father
Straw Dogs

Ben looks at Sam Peckinpah’s violent drama and finds it saturated with misogyny, diluting the impact of the wonderful craft used to create it on both sides of the camera. More…

Straw Dogs
Scarface

De Palma’s remake of Howard Hawks 1932 film, sees up-and-coming gangster Tony Montana arriving in Miami as a Cuban refugee. Cinema in one of its finest moments. More…

Scarface
Querelle

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle sees a handsome Belgian sailor arriving in Brest where he quickly gets involved in murder, theft, drugs and sex with both genders. More…

Querelle
Requiem For A Dream

Let’s look at one of the themes in Requiem For A Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky, as we ask “Can better living can be attained through increased consumption?” More…

Requiem For A Dream
Gattaca

If we could genetically engineer the children of the future and eradicate all ailments of the human condition, would they still be unique as individuals? More…

Gattaca
The Color Purple

We remember the saying ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’ as Venky looks back on this classic Steven Spielberg film from 1985, The Color Purple. More…

The Color Purple
Empire Of The Sun

Steven Spielberg’s ‘death of innocence’ film is the story of a British boy brought up in China during World War II and living in a state of cultural confusion. More…

Empire Of The Sun
Platoon

As a film that confronts us with the horrors within ourselves, Oliver Stone’s Platoon forces us to look back on the Vietnam War and ask “who were we really fighting?” More…

Platoon
Girl, Interrupted

As Winona Ryder said in James Mangold’s adaptation of Girl, Interrupted “Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified.” More…

Girl, Interrupted
Meet Joe Black

Based on the 1934 movie Death Takes A Holiday, Death arrives in the form of Joe Black to make a bargain with a man who wants what we want in the end – a little more time. More…

Meet Joe Black
Dancer In The Dark

Lars von Trier writers and directs this gripping and unusual musical starring Icelandic singer Björk as Selma, a Czech immigrant in 1960s Washington who’s losing her sight. More…

Dancer In The Dark
Stigmata

Stigmata offers glimpses into how a powerful organisation like the Vatican has always sought to control the flow of information for the sake of maintaining that power. More…

Stigmata
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