Oscar winners, scary horrors, and the most bonkers blockbuster of 2022…
There’s still some great new and original stuff coming to Amazon Prime Video for the rest of August – including a new superhero movie starring Sylvester Stallone – but they’ve also added this great list of movies to enjoy remove, too. See the article : Paper Girls is Prime Video’s answer to Stranger Things — with an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes…
The prequel casts Gaspard Ulliel as a young Hannibal Lecter, explaining how he became the cannibal we all know and love and fear. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, just FYI.
Hilary Duff stars as Sharon Tate in this part-fictional, part-based retelling of the Tate murders in 1969. 19% on Rotten Tomatoes, just FYI.
An Unexpected Journey, The Destruction of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies are available to watch back-to-back, if you wish.
Horror maestro Joe Dante directs this supernatural thriller about a family that moves into a new house, discovers a trap door in their basement, and foolishly opens it. It’s actually a pretty decent scary movie.
A cult classic set against Cardiff’s rave scene. You will either love it or hate it.
We’ll never forgive The Social Network, Inception, The Fighter, Black Swan or Toy Story 3 winning the Best Picture Oscar, but that said, this is still a very watchable comedy drama.
Nicolas Cage is concerned that his child may have predicted the end of the world as we know it. A very strange apocalyptic thriller, with one of the best plane crash sequences in the history of cinema.
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx lead this very violent and very stupid action thriller.
Despite the star-studded cast – Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare – and a plot that draws attention to real-life ax murders, we’ve never heard of this film before. Reviews indicate that it is moderately aggressive.
This is a horror film about a woman who is suddenly transformed by her evil mirror image. 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, so it’s probably for the best that we haven‘t seen it.
This is more like it. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt lead this sci-fi action thriller about a time-traveling assassin hired to kill his older self.
A great cast – George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey – adapting a great book telling the true stories of how the US military tried to implement psychic powers in its arsenal. The final product is just okay.
Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller and Alfre Woodard star in this underrated drama set in the world of up-and-coming casinos. 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore star as sisters in this comedy drama that will 100% have you crying before the end.
One of the most bonkers blockbusters of recent years, if not of all time, and also one of the most expensive flops of all time. It’s not a good movie, but it’s accidentally a very entertaining movie.
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There was a time when the world was dominated by adaptations of novels for young people. This is one of the worst of those. So many great famous actors. Such a bad movie.
Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton star in this real-life thriller based on a football team of young boys trapped in a flooded cave system in Thailand. We chatted with Colin about his role in the film, and that interview can be checked out in full here:
Ed Helms and Christina Applegate star in this hilarious reboot of the Vacation comedy series. It didn’t get much love when it was first released.
She is the director of Big Little Lies, the writer of Downton Abbey, and Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria in her early life. It looks great, Blunt is great, but it’s not always very interesting.
