Month: February 2026

Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past An off-beat comedy adapting Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for a modern audience. This movie features Matthew McConoughey in the lead role, as he contends with past relationships coming back to haunt him. A barrel of laughs (and larks) that would tickle even Ebenezer Scrooge’s funny bone. Think ‘High Fidelity' –but with less nihilistic angst and…

Directed by New Zealand filmmaker Martin Campbell - known for other films such as ‘Goldeneye’, ‘Vertical Limit’, ‘Green Lantern', ‘Casino Royale’ (2006 version), ‘Edge of Darkness’, and the 2001 follow-up to 1998’s Mask of Zorro, similarly titled The Legend of Zorro. Campbell works in television as well and has many other films attached to his name. He commonly writes and…

I’m a sucker for a good, hardboiled detective story. This Peter Medak directed and Hilary Henkin written tale of a femme fatale assassin, who refuses to die, and the hell unleashed by the Mafia upon a NYPD detective tasked with the unsavoury job of seeing her off – proves to be a sometimes messy - but ultimately satisfying watch.  A…