A Time to Kill
Joel Schumacher’s name is a by-word for awful, thanks to being the man who did what the Joker never could and killing Batman. Nerds everywhere have never forgiven him for […]
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Kenny
Kenny is a mockumentary which follows Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson), who works for a portaloo company in Australia. The style of the film is similar to previous mockumentary comedies like […]
On iPlayer: The Quatermass Xperiment
In The Quatermass Xperiment, three astronauts are sent into space but when the rocket crash lands in England, only one returns. The man who launched the rocket, Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), […]
On iPlayer: Point Blank
Point Blank is a French crime thriller about a nurse called Samuel (Gilles Lellouche). When a man sought by the criminal underworld, Hugo Sartet (Roschdy Zem), comes into his care, the […]
Half Past Dead
With the Expendables rumour mill working at full capacity there’s one name that’s not been mentioned for a while: Steven Seagal. Now we find out why. When I saw a […]
Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin is a terrifyingly brilliant drama by Gregg Araki. Dealing with the difficult topic of child abuse, it follows two boys: nervous, quiet Brian (Bradey Corbet) who believes he […]
You’re Next
I wish I’d been around in the ’80s. Sure there’d be Thatcherism and bad hair to contend with, but there’d be a new slasher film in the cinema every week. […]
Once Upon a Time in America
This is Sergio Leone’s gangster tale of epic proportions which follows a group of friends from their New York childhood in the 1920s through their underworld dealings over the next […]
Once Upon a Time in the West
After he made the dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone could have been satisfied to leave the Western alone, having made arguably one of the greatest trilogies in cinematic history. He returned […]
What Maisie Knew
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this new drama is a modernisation of a novel by Henry James. Onata Aprile plays Maisie, a child stuck in the middle of her […]
Screen Goblin 