East Is East
Adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, East Is East is the story of a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. Om Puri plays fanatical patriarch George Khan – or Genghis […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Compliance
Set in an already horrible fast-food restaurant, Compliance sees a prank caller exploit and humiliate its staff; essentially the Milgram Experiment (itself the subject of an upcoming feature film), designed to measure people’s obedience […]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino’s fourth feature (sub-category: terrible title) is Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which I will review in chapters like Tarantino has used in every bloody movie. Chapter I: Fox Force […]
Maggie
It’s been a strange month for Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s gone back to his most successful franchise for the fourth time with the latest Terminator film, and now does something he’s never […]
Blade
This is a 1998 comic book movie about the half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snipes) kicking the (un)living shit out of some vamps. And by vamps I mean vampires, not the British […]
Ant-Man
Marvel has enjoyed such enormous success in its ground-breaking cinematic universe that it’s now confident enough to attempt to put even the smallest of its heroes on screen, both in […]
Love & Mercy
Penned by I’m Not There writer Oren Moverman, Love & Mercy is a biopic of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, played by Paul Dano, John Cusack and Cate Blanchett. Just […]
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary that follows The Rolling Stones, who are inexplicably still touring today, even though Keith Richards looks like he died some time before they started […]
The Mist
Set almost entirely in a shop, Dawn of the Dead-style, The Mist is a 2007 horror dirge about a bunch of idiots hiding from some mist. “Would the malevolent mist […]
The Undefeated
As the Civil War draws to a close, John Wayne plays John Henry Thomas, a Yankee colonel who wants to remove his battle-weary men from the military and earn them some money […]
Screen Goblin 