Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me
Sesame Street does David Lynch, in the Monsterpiece Theater adaptation of Twin Peaks. The Film Alistair Cookie’s version is an homage to the TV show, but let’s stick to Fire Walk […]
Apocalypto
I’ve put off watching this for a while. If it’s any good an American director will remake it in English. Oh wait… Mayan certainly isn’t the most common of languages […]
The Frozen Ground
2013 is the year that gave us a new royal idiot, a new stupid pope and a new boring thriller starring Batshit Man himself, Nicolas Cage. The Frozen Ground is the […]
Pacino the Lawyer: The Devil’s Advocate v …And Justice for All
The Devil’s Advocate Keanu Reeves is Kevin, an expert defense lawyer from small town Florida who has never lost a case, becoming rich from defending the indefensible. He’s head hunted […]
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street can be summed up in one word: excess. Martin Scorsese seeks to do for the yuppie culture of the 1980s what Brian De Palma did for […]
The Constant Gardener
It seems that every review I write has to include a bit where I complain about the film’s title, and The Constant Gardener is no exception. It’s not even about gardening. It’s […]
Patriot Games
Some films try new things, so even if they don’t quite work they can be forgiven. At least they tried something different. Not Patriot Games. Patriot Games is happy to […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a shy kid with a troubled past who’s just starting high school. Introverted and lonely, he’s taken in by “misfit” step-siblings Patrick and Sam (Ezra Miller […]
Blog: The Oscar Grouch
As the statuettes line up like a golden terracotta army preparing to wage war on the soul of cinema it can only mean on thing: the Academy Awards; the annual […]
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder follows in the great tradition of films about film production, from Adaptation to Barton Fink, Seven Psychopaths to Galaxy Quest. It’s most similar to this last film, as a […]
Screen Goblin 