The Goblin Awards 2016
More reputable than the Golden Globes and shorter than the Oscars, it’s time for the Goblin Awards, our annual antidote to the Academy’s public onanism ceremony. 1. Most Awkward Moment The most awkward […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Moonlight
Not to be confused with the Cher movie Moonstruck, this is an Oscarnated drama about a young black man in three stages of his life. I’ve seen this film compared […]
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Heed the advice of the Grateful Dead, who once sang: “Look out, look out, The Candyman.” Mind you, they also said “Look for a while at the china cat sunflower,” so […]
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles shot A Touch of Evil in a matter of weeks, but after he wrapped the studio hired a new director for extensive re-shoots, worried about the film’s content. […]
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
This week, Guillermo del Toro announced that the long-mooted Hellboy 3 was officially dead, which seems unfair considering properties as tedious as Captain America get a whole trilogy. Yeah I went there, what’s he going to […]
Hidden Figures
Fans of the Hidden Figures trailer will be pleased to learn that it’s been expanded into a feature length movie. This is the story of three black women (Taraji P. […]
The Great Wall
I’ve actually visited the Great Wall of China, but to my embarrassment, I never realised that it was built to keep out alien monsters. Set in 11th century China, this […]
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
In a moment of weakness, I watched Resident Evil: The Final Chapter without having seen any of the previous 5 films, though I doubt that had much effect on this […]
Fences
Denzel Washington stars and directs in this story of a man in his fifties who feels that he’s missed out on life by working as a refuse collector to support […]
Hacksaw Ridge
Based on the true story of Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge is about the pacifist who enlisted in the US military as a medic in World War Two but refused to […]
