Carol
“Oh Carol,” Chuck Berry once sang, “don’t let him steal your heart away.” Or her, in the case of this romance based on Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. Carol tells […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 3D
I think this yoghurt is haunted. That’s the last time I buy Paranormal Activia. I’ve wasted enough time complaining about found footage films, so I’ll spare you another rant about watching […]
Steve Jobs
From the writer of The Social Network comes the story of a socially inept inventor who founded a giant tech company. Who says Hollywood has no new ideas? Steve Jobs […]
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Our Marithon continues with 1954’s There’s No Business Like Show Business, the story of a Vaudeville family-act called The Five Donahues – like the Osmonds but with Ethel Merman instead […]
Son of Rambow
From Be Kind Rewind to Super 8, there have been a few movies about amateur filmmaking in recent years. But there’s nothing amateur about Son of Rambow, the 2007 comedy written and directed by […]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
With the discovery this week of the biggest diamond for 100 years, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to look back at a film based around the girl’s […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Everybody’s favourite dystopian gameshow is back – but enough about The Apprentice, here’s the final Hunger Games movie. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is too long, both as a title […]
Bonnie and Clyde
This 1967 classic tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the Depression-era outlaws with one simple objective: “We rob banks.” Arthur Penn’s movie humanises Bonnie and Clyde without glamorising them. […]
Psych-Out
Psych-Out is a 1968 psychedelic drama directed by Richard Rush, and Richard rushed to get the movie made in time to cash in on the Summer of Love. The film […]
Frankenstein (1931)
This is the definitive adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel – the one you’ve seen clips of, and the one a million later Frankenstein’s monsters have been modelled on. Created […]
Screen Goblin 