The Sting
Paul Newman and Robert Redford execute the perfect long con in George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper. Nothing to do with the boring musician of the same name, The Sting reunites the […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Inherent Vice
Chinatown meets China White in Paul Thomas Anderson’s druggy detective mystery – a stonoir, if you will. Inherent Vice is set in 1970s Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War, the Manson Family murders […]
Chappie
As big brains like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk warn of the threat of artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that it’s as popular- a subject as ever in the film […]
Still Alice
Julianne Moore delivers an Oscar-winning performance as the eponymous Alice, a 50-year-old linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. This well-judged drama explores how the disease affects Alice and her husband John, sensitively played by […]
Ex Machina
Best known for writing such films as 28 Days Later…, Sunshine and Dredd 3D, Alex Garland delivers his directorial debut Ex Machina; a sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac (bearded), Domhnall Gleeson (American) and Alicia Vikander […]
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
Shaun the Sheep and his sheep pals are getting sick of the routine of farm life, so in a clever scheme they imprison the farmer and run riot. Unfortunately, the […]
The Scream Quadrilogy
Having attended an all-night marathon of the Scream quadrilogy at Leicester Square’s wonderful Prince Charles Cinema, please indulge me as I deliriously gush about three great slasher movies and Scream […]
Marley
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary about Bob Marley is basically Snoop Dogg’s Reincarnated, but with less weed. At two and a half hours, this is a thorough documentary that leaves no stoned unturned. […]
Predestination
This week marks the end of an era, as Orange Wednesdays comes to a close. This means there’s no longer any reason to be on EE, least of all those Kevin […]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
From the team behind Kick-Ass comes Kingsman: The Secret Service; James Bond retooled for the Nuts magazine generation. Let’s call it Thunderballs. Thunderballs stars Colin Firth as an impossibly suave […]
Screen Goblin 