Sicario
Sicario opens with a drugs raid on a house whose walls turn out to be lined with 40 rotting corpses. How could anyone live there? Doesn’t the smell bother them? It’s bad enough […]
The Panic in Needle Park
This 1971 drama follows a group of heroin addicts in New York City’s “Needle Park”, and features the first starring role by a certain Al Pacino. A candid representation of an urban underbelly seldom […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 6: Woody’s Dead
The Jewish High Holy Days seem like the perfect time to bring back my Woody Allen double-bills, where I review one of the auteur’s best films and one of his worst. Crimes […]
Legend
Here we are in the post-summer, pre-Oscar lull, where the only thing worth watching is Legend – purely because it’s had no involvement from M. Night Shyamalan. Legend stars Tom Hardy and […]
Deadfall
In 2012’s Deadfall, a pair of siblings (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) are on the run after shooting a cop, an ex-con (Charlie Hunnam) heads home to his parents (Sissy […]
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 […]
Screen Goblin 