Road Games (1981)

Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach), a truck driver transporting pig carcasses across the Nullabor Plain, repeatedly encounters on that long straight stretch of road through the Australian desert a green van, the driver of which he suspects is a serial killer, and Patrick supposes out loud to a hitchhiker he's picked up (Jamie Lee Curtis) that the killer thinks "women are pigs", a hint that there's an intellectual game happening in this horror thriller, but when all is said and done, the road games are just that: puns, wordplay and shallow tongue-in-cheek to while away time along the way.

★★★★☆

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Judy (2021)

If your impression of Judy Garland is that she was a kooky pill-popping drunk and terrible mum who abandoned her kids to chase money, then you are not wrong but this biopic contextualises that image, revealing the terrible effect upon Judy of her showbiz mum as well as the Weinsteinian influence upon her of numerous entertainment industry men, and really, how could anyone stay sober and on the rails standing each night in front of the theatre audiences of London, depicted in this movie as a schizophrenic group that laugh, laud and worship Judy one night, pepper her with tomatoes and boos the next before mawkishly serenading her the one after that!

★★★☆☆

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