The Banquet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is transported back 2,000 years to the opulent surroundings of ancient China, where trouble is brewing in the imperial court. The Crown Prince Wuluan (Daniel Wu) is in […]
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Molly’s Game
Molly’s Game is the directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, proving that he directs as well as he writes. In that his writing here is awful too. Jessica Chastain plays Molly […]
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) is a down-on-his-luck factory worker who lives with his blind girlfriend and supports his sister through a serious kidney disease. After he tries everything to get her […]
The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist is a new film about the making of the worst movie ever: Batman v Superman. Dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad films”, The Room is a 2003 romantic drama produced, […]
Royal Academy of Arts: Dali/Duchamp
This fascinating exhibition takes a look at the life and works of conceptual pioneer Marcel Duchamp and his surrealist friend Salvador Dalí – with a smattering of ‘third’ Man Ray. […]
The 6th Day
The 6th Day is set in the near future (“sooner than you think”), when a cloning company called RePet can make genetic copies of your deceased pets so you never […]
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance is not a gender-swapped version of the Vengaboys, but the third installment in Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. Lee Young-ae is superb as Lee Geum-ja, another brilliantly ambiguous character from […]
Ingrid Goes West
Counterprogramming involves competing with a big release by scheduling a film that’s the exact opposite. So you put a Nicole Kidman movie up against a Gary Oldman movie. Or if they […]
The Orphanage
To quote my co-goblin Alex: “Why do people find orphans so scary?” From the shrill hysteria of Orphan to the shrill hysteria of Annie, cinema is rife with stories of […]
The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Screen Goblin 