Listen Up Philip
This is a newish indie comedy/drama about a conceited, narcissistic writer (Jason Schwartzman) in New York. “Sounds like a Woody Allen film,” I hear you cry. There’s even a jazz […]
Das Experiment
Das Experiment is a German thriller from 2001, whose title literally translates as The Experiment. You’re welcome. Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film is based on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment: a group of men were placed […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This classic follows a dysfunctional couple – a history professor (Richard Burton) and the daughter of the university president (Elizabeth Taylor) – on a drunken night of arguing, as a […]
Star Trek: Nemesis
We reach the end of our Star Trek voyage with Nemesis, the 2002 finalé in which Picard (Patrick Stewart) confronts his evil clone Shinzon (Tom Hardy). You might be thinking: but Tom Hardy […]
Straight Outta Compton
From the director of The Negotiator and that Italian Job remake comes the story of a man with an equally chequered past: headphone manufacturer Dr. Dre, and his rap group […]
Notorious
This is a biopic of one of the biggest stars of rap, literally, the legendary Biggie Smalls, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., played by Jamal Woolard. It begins with his fatal shooting […]
Blade II
Some time after Blade, that old bloke who we all thought was dead is back, and that woman we thought would take his place is gone to make way for a new […]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
It’s hard to imagine a time before Steven Soderbergh had directed a thousand movies. But in 1989, he made his first feature, Sex, Lies, and Videotape; the Palme d’Or-winning arthouse drama that […]
Video Nasty 28: The Last House on the Left
Regular readers will know how much I love Wes Craven, the pioneer of horror cinema and birdwatcher who sadly died from brain cancer yesterday at the age of 76. Let’s […]
Pressure
Here at Screen Goblin, we’ve spent a lot of time watching submarine-based films, for reasons still unclear even to me. A quick look through the periscope reveals a brand new […]
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