Judy

Names like Judy Garland, Drew Barrymore and Linsey Lohan are ones you’ll see on lists about people destroyed by the Hollywood system and the odious people in it. It was terrible in the thirties and it has been terrible throughout the entirety of the 20th century, continuing on into the 21st century. Garland never really escaped the trauma of young stardom and this film attempts to tell the tale of her final years of her life before her untimely death at 47.

Terminator: Dark Fate

The Terminator franchise certainly has its ups and downs. At one end of the scale you have The Terminator and The Terminator: Judgement Day and at the other end of the scale you Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys with Terminator 3 slap bang in the middle. So, the question on everyone (who cared) lips was what fate would befall Terminator: Dark Fate?

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Sharon Tate has been immortalised in countless movies. Sadly, however, they have almost always been about her death. The death shocked Hollywood but at the same time they looked to exploit it, and have been doing so for years with the most recent guilty party being the odious Wolves at the Door.

Once Upon a Time in America

 

Once Upon a Time in America is a film famous for its production issues as it is for its quality. Originally intended to be a six hour epic charting the lives of four Jewish gangsters, the American production company cut down Leone’s film to 139 minutes, and edited the film so the story was told chronologically. In contrast, the European cut was closer to four hours. Almost 100 minutes longer than the American version. As a result, the American cut was a failure whilst the European film was celebrated as a masterpiece.

Midsommar

A couple of times a year a horror film will become a critical hit with many of these critics trying to distance the film from the horror genre as horror is all boobs, blood and guts, and can never actually be about something because horror *scoff* doesn’t have depth. These snobs exist (even Mark Kermode, who loves horror, said it isn’t a horror film) because the genre is still seen as one level above porn, despite the fact that horror has proven to be brave and instrumental when tackling different themes.

The Dead Don't Die

Set in a real nice place, a small American town is noticing strange going-ons with the daylight hours being somewhat out of synch with the time of day. The TV says that the Earth has been knocked off its axis. This causes lots of issues, one of which brings the dead back to life. A small American town, and its deadpan residents, try to survive the carnage around them.

Men in Black: International

A family of three encounter a strange alien like creature in the kitchen of their family home in Brooklyn. The Men in Black shortly arrive on the scene to Neuralyse the family, but little do they know that the little girl was not asleep as her parents had said. She remembers every detail and has even met the alien. She would spend the next 20 (circa) years trying to find that mysterious agency. Eventually she does, and they are so impressed by her resourcefulness and determination they hire her and send her off to London where it’s soon discovered that there is a mole in the agency.