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 […]
Blog: Stadium Scenes
Even outside the sporting genre, some of cinema’s finest finales and most stirring spectacles take place in sports stadiums – or stadia, for all our Latin readers. So here are […]
The Fan
Having recently watched and enjoyed the first two Blade films, we Goblins are in a bit of a Wesley Snipes frenzy. So when we saw The Fan, starring Snipes and Robert […]
Star Trek: Insurrection
In the ninth Star Trek film, the crew of the Enterprise pursue a malfunctioning Data (Brent Spiner) to the planet of the Ba’ku, a racially homogeneous society that have shunned technology […]
You’ve Been Trumped
As Donald Trump pulls ahead in the Republican polls, let’s see what happened when he tried to build a luxury golf course in Scotland. You’ve Been Trumped is a 2011 […]
The Gift
The Gift is the latest offering from production stable Blumhouse, best known for horror movies Sinister and Insidious. Bumhouse, more like. Like both those films and a thousand others, The Guest (or whatever […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan Hunt is back, in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try to work out what the hell is going on. […]
Fant4stic
Ten years after Marvel’s longest-running superhero team made their disastrous big-screen début they’re back in this reboot, that makes the greatest attempt to distance itself from its predecessor since Batman […]
