The Favourite
Aptly named for awards season, The Favourite concerns a power struggle between the ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the manipulative Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and new arrival Abigail (Emma Stone), […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Edge of Darkness
2010 revenge thriller Edge of Darkness is not to be confused with the song ‘Edge of Glory’, no matter how gaga the plot. Following the murder of his daughter (Bojana […]
The Possession
Where most possession movies are based around Christianity, 2012’s The Possession features a Jewish demon – and since we call the Christian ones Jesus Creepers, it seems only fair that […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tom Waits, Liam Neeson and Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) star in this Western anthology about American mythology. Spurred on perhaps by the episodic nature of Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers […]
Christian Marclay: The Clock
Should you find yourself stuck near the Tate Cotton (as opposed to the Tate Britton) and you need to know the time but your phone’s died, check out this free installation […]
RSC: Don Quixote
That’s RSC as in Royal Shakespeare Company as opposed to Royal Society of Chemistry, although David Threlfall and Rufus Hound have plenty of that too. Now playing at London’s Garrick Theatre […]
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Martin McDonagh brings his obsession with dwarves, gallows humour and the writing process to London’s Bridge Theatre (until 6 January), starring Jim Broadbent as a hilariously demented version of Hans […]
I’ve Never Seen… Elf
Welcome to a festive edition of the feature where we finally get round to a classic that’s passed us by, like the Marcus Brigstocke programme I’ve Never Seen Star Wars except we […]
Sorry to Bother You
There’s a fan theory that Get Out is a secret sequel to Being John Malkovich, and the new dark comedy Sorry to Bother You feels like the missing link between the two. The […]
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
Screen Goblin 