“Based on the RL Stine teen horror books beloved by a generation, the film version is expertly tailored to the taste of audiences seeking 90s comfort without 90s values, with a liberal measure (in all senses of the word) of small-town lesbian angst and ethnic diversity alongside the traditional blood-spattered cheerleading outfits and hordes of the undead.”
Read More“The film’s basic plot- two bored, narcissistic aristocrats compete to destroy the lives of various youthful conquests- offers a masterclass in the justification of bad behavior.”
Read More“Despite the tonal imbalance of heavier themes with the film's predictably fluffy aspects, and its formulaic reliance on saucer-eyed sidekicks and utterly unmemorable songs, the sheer novelty of a Disney movie wading into two of the most cancellable topics of the present decade.”
Read More“Amadeus simultaneously comments on and contributes towards the ‘nature’ of its subject, and the wider obsession of “all the mediocrities in the world” with pulling ‘extraordinary’ figures off their historical pedestals.”
Read More“The heavy breathing of screenwriter Michael Cristopher pervades The Witches of Eastwick, an adaptation of the John Updike novel which comes with the sweaty handprints of eighties Hollywood plastered all over it.”
Read More“Vice yanks the mask of boring pen-pusher from Vice President Dick Cheney with the clumsy enthusiasm traditionally accorded to Scooby Doo villains.”
Read More“In a premise not unlike a magical, Merrie Olde Englande version of Borat 2, Tristan decides to to haul his comely female cargo into town to barter the affections of his petulant blond target.”
Read MoreBird Box and A Quiet Place are not the only two oddly similar films to be released in the same year. Cast your minds back to Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached (2011), A Bugs Life and Antz (1998), or White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Surely no coincidence? In fact, there’s a name for this Hollywood phenomenon where two separate production companies release almost identical films within the same year: ‘twin films’.
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