Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist
London’s Vault Festival includes in its theatre/comedy line-up this wonderfully modern take on a tale as old as A Christmas Carol: a depressed man receives a spiritual visitor who helps […]
Pitch Perfect
This is a competition movie about two a cappella singing teams, the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers, at a university for the musically impaired. I hated this film and I […]
The Lego Movie 2
The follow-up to the wildly successful Lego Movie takes upbeat builder Emmett (Chris Pratt) into space to the Systar System in search of his his friends who have been abducted […]
Bros: After the Screaming Stops
All I knew of ’80s band Bros was that drummer Luke Goss had been in Blade II and Hellboy II, and that this film was apparently the most Brentian documentary since […]
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Made to mark Ingmar Bergman‘s 100th birthday, this documentary looks at the life of the great director through the prism of 1957. This was the ludicrously productive year in which […]
Alita: Battle Angel
A cyborg (Rosa Salazar) in the slums must compete in a deadly sport to reach the floating city that holds the key to her past in Alita: Battle Angel, AKA Ready […]
Heal the Living
This French film from 2014 follows two families: the parents of Simon (Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gabin Verdet), a 17-year-old boy who’s left brain dead after a car accident; and […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Happytime Murders‘ Melissa McCarthy asks our forgiveness in this biography of biographer Lee Israel. The woman who put Sean Spicer on the map turns her efforts to a different kind […]
The Mule
Cinematic workhorse Clint Eastwood stars and directs as Earl, a broke horticulturalist who becomes a big-time drugs mule to make ends meet. Let’s call it Breaking Grandad. Alongside his foray […]
Screen Goblin 