Dressed to Kill
Michael Caine plays a psychiatrist who grows concerned when his female patients start being murdered. When a lazy New York detective (Dennis Franz) fails to get to the bottom of […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish immigrant to New York in a volatile romance with biologist Nathan (Kevin Kline). When they meet young writer Stingo (Peter MacNicol) the three grow […]
The Verdict
Paul Newman plays a down-and-out lawyer who spends his days drinking himself to death, until he’s thrown a lifeline with a seemingly cut-and-dry medical case. But before he can get […]
Judge Dredd
Almost 20 years on, this doesn’t quite deserve its reputation as one of the worst comic book movies ever. In a terrifying dystopian future, where Sylvester Stallone wears painfully tight […]
Good
Viggo Mortensen plays Halder, an author and intellectual who is drawn into the Nazi party after his views on euthanasia are appropriated by the fascists. Mortensen here once again proves […]
On iPlayer: The Devil’s Double
One of the many things Saddam Hussein was known for was his use of body doubles, some of whom he reportedly made have plastic surgery to more closely resemble him. […]
Robocop (2014)
I can’t describe the plot of this film any better than my co-Goblin Dan did in his recent review of the 1987 original. Therefore I’ve copied and pasted it and […]
Synecdoche, New York
A struggling New York playwright, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is given a massive grant which he uses to create the most elaborate play ever imagined, incorporating his own life, and […]
The Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, who is to L Ron Hubbard as Charles Foster Kane is to William Randolph Hearst, as Hynkel is to Hitler, or as The Emperor […]
The Wiz
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of unusual interpretations of classic tales – from Homer’s Odyssey in depression era Mississippi to Hamlet in 10th century […]
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