The UK’s answer to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The action from Amis’s 70s set novel has been updated to the late 80s for the film adaptation.
Queue Dexter Fletcher talking directly to camera/audience about how he’s keen to lust after certain young attractive women and he records his finding on a floppy disk instead of writing papers which happens in the novel. Can’t say this would go down well today with modern audiences somehow but it’s a product of its…
U.S. Marshals the 1998 follow up to The Fugitive, switching Harrison Ford out for Wesley Snipes. This is a re-packaged version of the original film with more elaborate set pieces and a great chase sequence in the middle. I know The Fugitive is technically the better film but I do prefer this slick and more absurd sequel. Robert Downey Jr joins the team as a stuffy FBI agent assigned to help with the manhunt.
The film opens with Tommy Lee…
A synth score that goes hard, evil sibling twins and mistaken identity, murder at the drive in, cranberry sauce, OTT gory slasher kills, schlocky shenanigans and a plot so lean that it wastes zero time with exposition. A perfect slasher for the Thanksgiving holidays.
