X2
X2 AKA X-Men 2 AKA X-Men United, a title that was fortunately ditched presumably because it sounds like a football team, is the second instalment of the X-Men franchise. Three […]
X-Men
In the near future, people are being born with strange superpowers. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) can read people’s minds, Cyclops (James Marsden) can shoot lasers from his eyes, and Halle Berry […]
Godzilla
The latest reboot of the Godzilla brand stars Bryan Cranston as a scientist obsessed with suspicious seismic activity in Japan, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as his US Navy son and Godzilla as himself. Godzilla will […]
The Two Faces of January
The latest Hollywood film with a stupid name is The Two Faces of January, a dramatic thriller about small-time con man Rydal (Oscar Isaac) who finds himself embroiled in the lives […]
Sabotage
It’s happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger has played a substantial role in a film that isn’t just an Arnold Schwarzenegger star vehicle. Sabotage is a violent action crime thriller about a team of hard […]
Frank
To declare an interest, I once met Jon Ronson, co-writer of Frank, and he showed me a picture of his dog. The film is loosely based on his experience playing […]
Blue Ruin
Last week saw the release of two films about neighbours from hell. Blue Ruin follows the escalating violence between neighbouring families. Meanwhile, Bad Neighbours sees the lives of an unlucky couple completely devastated when Zac […]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary about the revolutionary Zephyr skateboarding team of California in the mid-1970s, narrated by a stoned Sean Penn. I should say for legal reasons […]
The Raid 2
Having just about recovered from the tower block siege of The Raid, Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover in a crime family. He spends the rest of the film quietly trying to […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Welcome back to our increasingly regular feature of reviewing a film too late to catch it in the cinema, but too early for the DVD or Netflix – the infinitesimally […]
Screen Goblin 