Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
For Halloween I set myself the limit of only spending as much on my costume as Kevin Spacey’s latest film took at the box office, so I’ve got hold of […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Fahrenheit 11/9
Fahrenheit 11/9 (or to use its British title, Celsius 9/11) is the new film from Michael Moore, not to be confused with rapper Macklemore (or Dexter Jettster for that matter). […]
Executive Koala
From the director of Crab Goalkeeper and Calamari Wrestler, Executive Koala is a 2005 Japanese (obviously) comedy/psychological thriller about an executive koala. The low-fi, live-action (apart from a cute cartoon intro/song) absurdist drama follows […]
Halloween (2018)
Just in time for 2 weeks before Halloween comes this reboot of John Carpenter’s classic slasher, set 40 years after the original. In it, Michael Myers escapes incarceration and goes […]
Six Days, Seven Nights
Alien vs. Predator. Freddy vs. Jason. Stallone vs. De Niro. Hollywood loves to pit its icons against each other in the name of “crossover” entertainment, ie. entertainment that crosses over […]
Cold War
This Soviet love story comes along just as Jeremy Hunt faces criticism for comparing the EU to the USSR, with one diplomat suggesting that he “open a history book from […]
The Cat Returns
This 2002 manga adaptation follows a high school student (Chizuru Ikewaki) who saves a cat from being run over and is spirited away to the magical Cat Kingdom, where the Cat […]
Searching
From the producer of Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web comes another screen-based thriller about a father (John Cho) searching for his teenage daughter (Michelle La), who goes missing after running into some […]
Killer’s Moon
This British slasher from 1978 follows a group of choir girls on a coach trip to the Lake District, just about the most English premise imaginable (short of sending them to […]
Easy A
There’s a long tradition of movies that start with a lie that spins out of control, from 1961’s The Children’s Hour (my teachers are lesbians!) to this year’s Yardie (I […]
Screen Goblin 