Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
What do Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk and Chick Corea have in common? Apart from all having ridiculously cool names, they all recorded on Blue Note Records, the greatest jazz label […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Shazam!
A boy growing up in foster care, Billy (Asher Angel), is abducted by a wizard (Djimon Hounsou) who gives him superpowers so he can fight the Seven Deadly Sins, embodied […]
Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy
Released on her 75th birthday, this celebration of the biggest diva called Ross since Friends showcases her rained-off 1983 concert in New York, AKA the Fire Island Festival AKA Gimme Shelter […]
Video Nasty 40: The Beyond
I watched Italian zombie film The Beyond (1981) in the hope of some Brexit respite, only to be confronted with the story of a one-dimensional woman (Catriona MacColl) who finds […]
Burlesque
Christina Aguilera is Ali, a fresh off the bus singer looking to make it big in LA. There she stumbles into a burlesque club and sets her sights on becoming […]
Us
This home inversion movie follows a woman (Lupita Nyong’o) whose trauma from a childhood funhouse experience resurfaces while on a beach holiday with her family – essentially The Strangers by […]
Dark Water
Given the multitude of movies about writers, journalists and even publishers, it’s nice to see a film about a proofreader for a change considering they’re just as impotant. This 2002 […]
Face/Off
No this isn’t a film about what happens if you get on the wrong side of a chimp. It’s about a notorious gangster, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and a top […]
The Scorpion King
Back in 2002 before Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson had perfected his personal brand of star vehicle, he starred in wacky genre fare like this spin-off from the second remake of the The […]
The Big Trail
This early John Wayne film from 1931 sees a band of pioneers heading out West to start a new town along the Oregon Trail. Together the families traverse dangerous plains […]
Screen Goblin 