Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance is not a gender-swapped version of the Vengaboys, but the third installment in Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. Lee Young-ae is superb as Lee Geum-ja, another brilliantly ambiguous character from […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Ingrid Goes West
Counterprogramming involves competing with a big release by scheduling a film that’s the exact opposite. So you put a Nicole Kidman movie up against a Gary Oldman movie. Or if they […]
The Orphanage
To quote my co-goblin Alex: “Why do people find orphans so scary?” From the shrill hysteria of Orphan to the shrill hysteria of Annie, cinema is rife with stories of […]
Murder on the Orient Express
The power of Hollywood is the power to make us believe the unbelievable. That superheroes are living amongst us and using Bing. That Jai Courtney is someone who should be […]
Jigsaw
7 years after we last saw John Kramer AKA the Jigsaw Killer comes this new Saw film. Remember the Saw films? They were one of these depressing noughties inventions, like Skins […]
Quatermass and the Pit
The London Underground has played host to some monstrosities in film over the years: cannibals in Death Line and Creep, werewolves in An American Werewolf in London, and Gwyneth Paltrow […]
Sorcerer
Transporting gallons of nitroglycerin through the jungle, Roy Scheider and his crew drive to the very edge of survival – a bit like Jaws, except this 1977 existential thriller was a […]
Geostorm
It was announced today that Cabinet minister Michael Fallon would be replaced by former whip Gavin Williamson, a man best known for using a pet tarantula called Cronus to intimidate MPs […]
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
For reasons that are immediately obvious, it’s hard to name the greatest band that never made it, but this 2010 rockumentary makes a strong case that it’s Fishbone. Everyday Sunshine: […]
Thor: Ragnarok
Rappers MC Hammer and Lowkey do battle with Grandmaster Flash in this, the third Thor movie. Two more and we’ll finally be able to say: “One to see Thor Five, […]
Screen Goblin 