All I Desire
The premise of 1953 romantic drama All I Desire is almost Showgirls in reverse; Naomi Murdoch (not quite Nomi Malone but close enough) is a faded actress who travels from […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones deals out gender justice as future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG. The film starts with a breakneck journey through Ruth’s Harvard days, as […]
The Goblin Awards 2019
Welcome to the Goblin Awards, like the Oscars but without a host – which this year makes it exactly like the Oscars. Big Budget – Bad Movie While there have […]
Sexy Beast
An ex-pat ex-con (Ray Winstone) has his retirement interrupted by his psychotic boss (Ben Kingsley) who arrives in Spain with all the charm and composure of an English person arriving […]
The Kid Who Would Be King
When a bullied schoolboy (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, son of Andy) finds Excalibur on an abandoned building site, it’s up to him and a ragtag group of classmates to thwart the […]
ENO: Akhnaten
This is Philip Glass’s third biographical opera following Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha (about Gandhi). This time the subject is Akhnaten, the Egyptian pharaoh noted for replacing Egypt’s traditional […]
The Crow
The Crow is a comic book adaptation in which a vengeful rockstar (Brandon Lee) gets resurrected, Rolling Stones style. Released in 1994, The Crow is dedicated to its star Brandon […]
Stir Crazy
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor play Flip and Harry, a pair of friends from New York who get fired on the same day and decide to head to California. But […]
Home, I’m Darling
Home I’m Darling is a new play about a husband and wife (Richard Harrington and Katherine Parkinson) living in modern-day Welwyn Garden City as if it’s the 1950s; a couple […]
