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• Alien: Covenant

  Alien: Covenant 2017

  

  Steven Sheehan ★★★ 2

  Thrilling in patches and a lot leaner than its predecessor, Prometheus, the latest film in the Alien franchise, Alien: Covenant, retreads old ground with mixed success. It's hard to shake…

• Wag the Dog

  Wag the Dog 1997

  

  JC13 ★★★★

  "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

  Wag the Dog is a political satire about a a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer that team up to…

• The Five-Year Engagement

  The Five-Year Engagement 2012

  

  Vanina ★★★ 5

  Quite confused why Emily Blunt's teenage bedroom would be covered in Wham! posters. Blunt was born in 1983, Wham! broke up in 1986 - while my teenage bedroom walls were…

• Undercover Man

  Undercover Man 1942

  

  PUNQ ★★½

  Hopalong Cassidy having fun at the border! More a good time than a thrilling western, but it has the usual saddle chases and shootouts to please the action fans. What…

• Lost Canyon

  Lost Canyon 1942

  

  PUNQ ★★

  The new guy Jay Kirby is in trouble being accused of robbery, so Hoppy tries to investigate whats going on. Solid B-western with a hard rock finish. Doesn't always thrill,…

• Vamp

  Vamp 1986

  

  Filipe Furtado ★½

  It manages the feat of being both one of the worst of the self-aware 80s jokey horror and the bombast MTV ready 80s horror. So it is the anti-Lost Boys.

• The Conversation

  The Conversation 1974

  

  Liam Hathaway ★★★★★

  Coppola's masterful and prescient low-key thriller was way ahead of the curve when it came to articulating the political mistrust of the '70s and how advanced technology allowed for new…

• Twin Peaks

  Twin Peaks 1989

  

  SamCricket ★★★★★

  Where to begin?
  The Damn fine coffee? The perfect Cherry Pie?
  The lonely, dripping corridors of the all-amercian highschool?
  The cozy dance between good and nasty cunning that goes on…