Das Experiment
Das Experiment is a German thriller from 2001, whose title literally translates as The Experiment. You’re welcome. Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film is based on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment: a group of men were placed […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Star Trek: Nemesis
We reach the end of our Star Trek voyage with Nemesis, the 2002 finalé in which Picard (Patrick Stewart) confronts his evil clone Shinzon (Tom Hardy). You might be thinking: but Tom Hardy […]
Straight Outta Compton
From the director of The Negotiator and that Italian Job remake comes the story of a man with an equally chequered past: headphone manufacturer Dr. Dre, and his rap group […]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
It’s hard to imagine a time before Steven Soderbergh had directed a thousand movies. But in 1989, he made his first feature, Sex, Lies, and Videotape; the Palme d’Or-winning arthouse drama that […]
Video Nasty 28: The Last House on the Left
Regular readers will know how much I love Wes Craven, the pioneer of horror cinema and birdwatcher who sadly died from brain cancer yesterday at the age of 76. Let’s […]
Pressure
Here at Screen Goblin, we’ve spent a lot of time watching submarine-based films, for reasons still unclear even to me. A quick look through the periscope reveals a brand new […]
Blog: Stadium Scenes
Even outside the sporting genre, some of cinema’s finest finales and most stirring spectacles take place in sports stadiums – or stadia, for all our Latin readers. So here are […]
You’ve Been Trumped
As Donald Trump pulls ahead in the Republican polls, let’s see what happened when he tried to build a luxury golf course in Scotland. You’ve Been Trumped is a 2011 […]
The Gift
The Gift is the latest offering from production stable Blumhouse, best known for horror movies Sinister and Insidious. Bumhouse, more like. Like both those films and a thousand others, The Guest (or whatever […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan Hunt is back, in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try to work out what the hell is going on. […]
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