The Harder They Come
Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of Jamaican independence. More professional websites might have thought this through and reviewed a Jamaican movie yesterday. They might even have bothered to put a […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact is directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also plays Riker; following in the actor-director footsteps of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. Suffice to say, he’s better at […]
Inside Out
Inside Out is the latest film to be set in San Francisco; seemingly the setting for every film of 2015, from Ant-Man to San Andreas. Apparently Hollywood screenwriters can’t imagine […]
Cub
Cub (Welp) is a partially crowd-funded Flemish film set at scout camp, in the middle of the woods, supposedly stalked by a werewolf boy. Cub, werewolf, get it? Be Prepared: this is quite a […]
East Is East
Adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, East Is East is the story of a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. Om Puri plays fanatical patriarch George Khan – or Genghis […]
Compliance
Set in an already horrible fast-food restaurant, Compliance sees a prank caller exploit and humiliate its staff; essentially the Milgram Experiment (itself the subject of an upcoming feature film), designed to measure people’s obedience […]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino’s fourth feature (sub-category: terrible title) is Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which I will review in chapters like Tarantino has used in every bloody movie. Chapter I: Fox Force […]
Blade
This is a 1998 comic book movie about the half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snipes) kicking the (un)living shit out of some vamps. And by vamps I mean vampires, not the British […]
Love & Mercy
Penned by I’m Not There writer Oren Moverman, Love & Mercy is a biopic of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, played by Paul Dano, John Cusack and Cate Blanchett. Just […]
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary that follows The Rolling Stones, who are inexplicably still touring today, even though Keith Richards looks like he died some time before they started […]
Screen Goblin 