The Revenant
Leonardo Di Caprio endures more punishment than the audience of Attack of the Clones as Hugh Glass, a man who is left for dead in the wilderness and has to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Sunset Boulevard
When a struggling screenwriter’s (William Holden) car breaks down on Sunsent Boulevard, a faded silent movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her doting butler (Erich von Stroheim) welcome him to her […]
On iPlayer: Made in Dagenham
Set in 1968, Made in Dagenham is based on the sewing machinists strike over equal pay at Ford’s Dagenham plant. It’s currently on iPlayer, though if you’ve seen films like […]
Room
We goblins are co-reviewing the new drama Room, not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau’s superior The Room. Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay play a mother and son being held […]
Over the Top
There are films out there that defy belief, and most of them star Sylvester Stallone. Over the Top is such a film; a Stallone-penned drama about arm-wrestling. Let’s call it […]
The Hateful Eight
A bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is taking a gang member Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock, Wyoming, to collect the price on her head. But when a […]
Creed
Nothing to do with the Christian rock band of the same name, Creed is the latest Rocky movie, in which the franchise comes Full Circle. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is […]
Tango & Cash
Just when you thought Sylvester Stallone had exhausted soft drink product placement in Cobra, he returns as a cop called Ray Tango. Along with Kurt Russell’s Gabe Cash, he’s framed, imprisoned […]
Cobra
Sylvester Stallone writes and stars in a film about a cop who’s tough, impulsive, hot-headed and totally un-employable. He takes on a death cult who are responsible for a string of […]
The Danish Girl
Inspired by the life of transgender artist Lili Elbe, The Danish Girl stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander as married painters in 1920s Copenhagen, a place apparently populated by posh Brits. Initially, I […]
