Ben-Hur
In this remake of the 1925 classic, Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish Prince who’s screwed over by his childhood friend (and former lover?), the Roman Sextus (André Morell). […]
Monkey Business
This is a film about a brilliant scientist working on a cure for ageing, that he is testing on chimps in his lab. So it’s basically the plot of Rise […]
Big Trouble in Little China
Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) drive to the airport to pick up Wang’s fiancée Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), only to see her kidnapped by […]
His Girl Friday
Billed on Netflix as a romantic comedy where two men fight over a woman, this is actually a scathing satire of the newspaper industry. It is to printed news what […]
The Revenant
Leonardo Di Caprio endures more punishment than the audience of Attack of the Clones as Hugh Glass, a man who is left for dead in the wilderness and has to […]
Sunset Boulevard
When a struggling screenwriter’s (William Holden) car breaks down on Sunsent Boulevard, a faded silent movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her doting butler (Erich von Stroheim) welcome him to her […]
On iPlayer: Made in Dagenham
Set in 1968, Made in Dagenham is based on the sewing machinists strike over equal pay at Ford’s Dagenham plant. It’s currently on iPlayer, though if you’ve seen films like […]
Room
We goblins are co-reviewing the new drama Room, not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau’s superior The Room. Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay play a mother and son being held […]
Over the Top
There are films out there that defy belief, and most of them star Sylvester Stallone. Over the Top is such a film; a Stallone-penned drama about arm-wrestling. Let’s call it […]
The Hateful Eight
A bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is taking a gang member Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock, Wyoming, to collect the price on her head. But when a […]
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