Bumblebee
Remember the ’80s?? E.T.? The Smiths? Stuff blowing up? It’s all here in Bumblebee, a Transformers prequel in which the conceptually confused robot/alien/bumblebee/VW Beetle (you could call it a hybrid) crash-lands on Earth and is […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Addams Family
America’s most creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, chunky yet funky (or is that Latrice Royale) family hit the big screen in 1991, finding themselves the victim of a con involving […]
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival was meant to take place on the island of Great Exuma in 2017, and is greatly exhumed in Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest […]
Matilda
Carrie meets Malcolm in the Middle in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation. Danny DeVito directs this tale of a telekinetic Lisa Simpson (Mara Wilson) with the same heightened physicality displayed in […]
Beautiful Boy
As well as having some sort of ‘unusual sex scene‘ clause in every movie contract, Timothée Chalamet appears to be reliving Leonardo DiCaprio’s career, following up his youthful Oscar nomination with a […]
Vice
Christian Bale shows us his Dick and Sam Rockwell his Bush in Dick Cheney biopic Vice. Surprisingly for a movie that exceeds 2 hours (but unsurprisingly for the director of Anchorman, […]
Bird Box
Did you know there’s a Mayan prophecy that predicts the world will end in 2019 after becoming overrun with high-concept post-apocalyptic movies? First there was After Earth: if it senses your […]
When Marnie Was There
Released in 2014, When Marnie Was There was Studio Ghibli’s final film – until 2020’s How Do You Live? was announced by Hayao Miyazaki, a man who comes out of retirement almost as often […]
Super Fly
Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) is a Harlem coke pusher who decides to go straight after one final score: selling 30 kilos of cocaine in 4 months for $1 million. Talk about a […]
Ghostbusters II & Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1984 may not have been a fun year for Winston Smith, but fans of creature comedies got Ghostbusters and Gremlins out of it – and a few years later, a pair of […]
Screen Goblin 