Silence
Set in the 17th century, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver play a pair of Portuguese priests who go to Japan as missionaries in search of their mentor Father Ferreira (Liam […]
Category Archives: New Releases
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is not a sequel to An Inspector Calls but a magical realist film directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage) and written by Patrick Ness, adapted from his novel. It’s […]
Passengers
I always envy characters in cryosleep; spending decades in an induced state of hibernation sounds brilliant. Particularly if you get to sleep through a film as thoroughly abysmal as Morten […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
If nothing else, 2016 has given us a new Star Trek and Star Wars film. The only other year this has happened was 2002, fact fans. So it’s been a great year […]
Your Name
The latest anime film so good it’s found its way to British cinemas is Your Name, from director Makoto Shinkai. It follows two young people, Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki […]
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
100 years after D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation comes this slavery drama of the same name – not a remake, but a symbolic appropriation of the racist film’s title; The Birth of a Namesake. […]
American Honey
The most overused naming convention in the history of cinema strikes again with American Honey, an indie road movie about an 18-year-old girl called Star (Sasha Lane), who meets travelling magazine […]
Allied
Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt play unconvincing spies who unconvincingly fall in love and move to Hampstead in this unconvincing WWII thriller. Let’s call it Incredulous Basterds. Again Bad Pitt […]
Paterson
Adam Driver plays a bus driver called Paterson in a city called Paterson in the new film Paterson. Yes it sounds boring, but unlike most bus journeys, it’s actually surprisingly enjoyable […]
Nocturnal Animals
Not to be confused with Fantastic Beasts, Nocturnal Animals is a new adaptation of the Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan. I see why they changed the title. Written and directed by Tom […]
Screen Goblin 