On iPlayer: Good Night, and Good Luck
Set in McCarthy era America, Good Night, and Good Luck is George Clooney’s 2005 drama based on true events – there are no ghosts in it, unless you count the spectre of […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Shitter Island
2010 was a big year for Leonardo DiCaprio, playing not one but two psychologically wounded widowers. There was Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster Inception and Martin Scorsese’s mystery thriller Shutter Island. In Shutter Island, DiCaprio […]
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Aha! The long-awaited Alan Partridge movie has landed and it was well worth the wait. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham reunite to bring us a […]
Hypo-carrey-sy
You may have seen the news that Jim Carrey recently denounced his involvement in Kick-Ass 2, claiming: “I cannot support that level of violence.” His change of heart came as a […]
The Breakfast Club
Welcome to a new feature in which I finally get round to watching a film that I really should have seen by now, in this case The Breakfast Club – John Hughes’ […]
The Conjuring and The Marketing
The latest horror film to follow the grammatically questionable trend of having a title that follows “The” with a present participle is The Conjuring, directed by James Wan of Saw and Insidious fame. Or […]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
In John McNaughton’s debut feature, Michael Rooker plays Henry – by day a soft-spoken pest exterminator, by night a ruthless serial killer. Made in 1986 but not released until 1990, due […]
Lose Found Footage
Aren’t we all getting bored of found footage films now? Presenting a movie as real footage recovered from some genuine event was once an innovative technique, but today it’s rare […]
Now You See Me
Time for a new feature in which I review a film frustratingly close to the end of its cinematic run. In this case it doesn’t matter, however, as Now You See […]
On iPlayer: Right At Your Door
Here’s a film that’s on BBC iPlayer until Monday, so you can watch Right At Your Door right at your computer. Providing you’re in the mood for a pretty unrelenting film about […]
Screen Goblin 