In middle America, a coffee shop owner with anger management issues fires his wife, Lulu, right as an old flame of hers comes to town. This is Beverly Luff Linn (two words), an… artist, possibly, who can only communicate via grunts, and who is going to perform…. something, for one magical night only. Aiding Lulu, sortof, is Colin, an earnest misfit who should’ve been named ‘Keith’, and who has never fully recovered. Continue reading An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

In the near distant future, the Earth’s natural environment has been decimated. Our rulers have an idea to preserve our ecology; collect specimens of plants and animals and send them into space, Noah’s Ark style, in domes aboard giant spaceships. When the Earth has been cleaned up, these will return, to repopulate the planet. Continue reading Silent Running (1972)

Max Renn is the President of Channel 83, a trashy, low budget station that will screen anything to get viewers. Weary of a hundred different variations on soft porn, his interest is piqued by a pirate signal one of his tech guys intercepts; ‘Videodrome’, a plotless something set in a single room, where people are tortured to death by masked figures. As Max investigates who is behind the program, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving reality shifting subliminal messaging. Continue reading Videodrome (1983)

In the far distant future, our sun has become unstable and the Earth uninhabitable. Humanity’s distant descendants flee initially to Neptune, where we found a new civilisation. As the aeons pass, humans change with their environment; over many millenia eventually evolving into a new species. Continue reading Last and First Men (2017)

A suburban misfit, Kurt Kunkle, buries himself in social media, creating a virtual world of prank videos, reviews and lifehacks. Only problem: no one is watching. How do you stand out in a crowded online community, where viewing options are infinite, and attention spans are short? Kurt finally has an idea; live stream a killing spree, bumping off his ride share passengers as he works an evening shift. Continue reading Spree (2020)

Thousands of years into the future, human society has collapsed. The remnants of our our species are divided into two groups; the ‘Outlanders’, vicious savages who battle one another for control of scarce natural resources, and the ‘Vortexters’, immortals who live in a technology protected bubble and want for nothing. If you think about it…. IT’S NOT THAT DIFFERENT TO TODAY!! Continue reading Zardoz (1974)

Baltimore, 1963: all the teens are going crazy for The Corny Collins Show, an American jukebox program where the city’s attractive white kids dance off to the popular hits of the day. Enter Tracey Turnblad: a ‘pleasantly plump’ girl from the wrong side of the tracks, ready to dance and fight racial segregation. Continue reading Hairspray (1988)

A couple of New Orleans fringe dwellers get railroaded into jail; Jack, a pimp framed as a paedophile, and Zak, a radio DJ framed for murder. There they become cellmates with Bob, an eccentric Italian who doesn’t speak much English and who may, or may not, have killed someone. Continue reading Down By Law (1986)

A suburban couple in the American 70s have a mystery box left on their doorstep in the middle of the night; an empty wooden cube, with a big push button on top. Later, they are visited by the equally mysterious Mr Steward, a polite older gent in a natty outfit who has a sinister offer for them. Continue reading The Box (2009)