Hired to take over/make use of the bare bones of a documentary made by François Reichenbach about art forger and general high living faker Elmyr de Hory and his biographer and semi-professional ...
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ABIGAIL (2024): In Matt Bettinelli-Olpin’s and Tyler Gillet’s new directorial outing, yet another hapless gang of criminals (among them characters played by Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kevi...
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Original title: 爛頭何 “Dirty” Ho Ching (Wong Yu) is a pretty enthusiastic thief with a certain penchant for self-taught kung fu. He’s just managed a great jewel heist and is in the pr...
Original title: 雍正大破十八銅人 Qing prince Yong Zhen (Carter Wong Chia-Ta) doesn’t like the choice of successor to the throne made by his late father, and so changes Daddy’s last ...
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Princess Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) is traded in to a far and apparently very prosperous country to marry the local prince in trade for the food and riches that will help her famine-plagued home...
Original title: La coda dello scorpione Warning: I’m going to spoil an early twist! The plane the businessman husband of Lisa Baumer (Evelyn Stewart) is on is destroyed by a bomb while the ...
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Warning: I will spoil some elements of the film’s ridiculousness, including its ending, because I’m not going to hide its main selling points. American novitiate nun Sister Cecilia (Sydney ...
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BADLAND HUNTERS aka 황야 (2024): Hei Myeong-haeng’s post-apocalyptic action movie is good fun, with Ma Dong-seok (or Don Lee, if you prefer) and Ahn Jiy-hye making pretty great action heroes ...
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Original title: 少林寺十八銅人 His grandmother gives Tang Siu-Lung (Tien Peng) into the care of the Shaolin temple when is just a little boy, so they can train him for vengeance on whoev...
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A group of strangers – among them florist and mystery fan Miranda Green (Mischa Barton) – are invited to the isolated island mansion of an eccentric rich man for reasons nobody involved is cl...
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AQUAMAN – LOST KINGDOM (2023): Even though I’m not writing about the current crop of superhero movies all that often, I haven’t jumped on the superhero hate train, and “superhero fatigue�...
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Original title: Serbuan Halilintar This is based on the original Indonesian cut of the movie. Criminal mastermind – the subtitles say so, so it must be true – Gundar (Dicky Zulkarnaen) an...
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High school senior Lillian (Talia Ryder) semi-accidentally goes on the run when the opportunity arises to while she’s on a class trip to Washington DC. From there, she goes on a long strange tr...
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Original title: Le démon dans l'île Dr Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey) moves to a somewhat isolated island to become the new general practitioner there. The islanders haven’t told her, but ...
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After throwing himself on a grenade, a soldier (John Hodiak) in World War II suffers from amnesia. He’s probably called George Taylor, or so the facts suggest. He’s not too keen on finding ou...
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Kelsey (Diana Gardner) and professional Gay Best Friend Blake (Nathaniel Ansbach) travel to Italy for the surprisingly intimate bachelorette party of Kelsey’s former best friend Rochelle (Isabe...
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Jonathan Creek (Alan Davies) uses his considerable powers of logic and imagination to invent tricks and illusions for the sleazy stage magician Adam Klaus (Anthony Head, in a hilariously slimy on...
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PAYDAY (1973): Sleazy country star Maury Dann (Rip Torn) is on the road, lying, bullying and sliming his way across the USA while growing increasingly deranged. I’m a big fan of 70s grimdark,...
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Original title: El fantasma del convento Friends Alfonso (Enrique del Campo), Eduardo (Carlos Villatoro), and Eduardo’s wife Cristina (Marta Ruel) find themselves lost in the woods at night. ...
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Original title: 愛殺 The film takes place among a group of Hong Kong expat students living in the United States. Joy (Tina Lau Tin-Lan), who appears to suffer from a psychosis, attempts suici...
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945): This mystery directed by René Clair is the first of a considerable number of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s best novel (and thankfully uses the US version of...
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Disgraced after failing to do some crucial background checks during an investigation, a journalist (Lily Sullivan) coming from a wealthy background has turned solo podcaster with one of those “...
Following their strong, arrogant prick of a leader Adem (Chuku Modu) a small splinter group of a stone age tribe of early humans have crossed a large body of water to find new, hopefully better l...
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LIFT (2024): This Netflix production as directed by F. Gary Gray is rather astonishing. Astonishing in how forgettable it is. If I hadn’t made a couple of notes while watching it, I’d remembe...
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Colley Dawson (Ray Milland), designing safes for rich people who use them to lock up treasures for nobody to see, has enough of the small life: fast cars, pretty women and touching said treasures...
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