Aaaand they’re back! This week, we shoot back to 2006 and a movie that left royalists, monarchists, and Anglophiles alike clamoring for more—the award darling, Oscar-bating, The Queen. This film serves up all the hallmarks of British luxury: a picnic in the Cairngorms (featuring a full bar, I might add), Barbour waxed jackets, Land Rovers, gaggles of corgis, flawless diction, painfully rigid protocol, and a curmudgeonly old man taking the Lord’s name in vain while endlessly cursing out “the poors.” Does it get any more British?

“Steep” yourself in the “tea” of the Royal Family immediately following the untimely death of Princess Diana, as Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen battle for the heart of a nation. The performances slay, the stakes are… medium… and the 90s nostalgia is at an all-time high.

God Save the Screen!

GET DOWN with the latest episode of The Chronicles of Critic where we are taking a look at the highest grossing movie that came out this week way back in 1993. While perhaps oveshadowed by the groundbreaking film that was Jurassic Parc, Last Action Hero came out the next week to... not much fanfair...

We thought this movie was the bees knees and arguably holds up even better now that we're all a few decades removed from the peak of all that was "aby-oiled abs and cocaine-induced action movie fever dreams. This has a great story, some wonderful acting, 200 intentional gaffs, three Oscar winners, and more homage that you can keep up with. Its a Riggs, it's a McClean, no it's, JACK SLATER!

Hoping this releases just in time for a pleasant drive in the country to the cottage ;)

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While Scooby-Doo technically topped the box office this week back in 2002, we made sure to send one of the Treadstone assassins to do to that dog what they did to poor Eamon’s retriever in The Bourne Identity.

This one’s our first 10 on the nostalgia-meter — and quite possibly my favourite film. We get to explore the seedy underbelly of international espionage while witnessing a brand-new way to make an action movie, a style and approach that still echoes through the genre over two decades later.

Some of our favourite questions upon rewatch:

• Does amnesia actually work like this?

• Did Wombosi really think that blackmailing the CIA was a good plan?

• And why did the world’s top assassin decide the best way to handle one fat, middle-aged, probably out-of-practice Frenchman… was to jump off a building?

I love Matt Damon.. but I can't help but wonder whether Burt Reynolds could have just bounced off his immaculate chest hair when hitting the foyer of that appartment building.

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