On iPlayer: Carnage
For the next four days you can watch Carnage on iPlayer, Roman Polanski’s 2011 adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage. The film opens with an altercation between two kids, then moves […]
A Spike Lee Joint: He Got Game
Jake (Denzel Washington) is offered time off his lengthy prison sentence if he can persuade his son, basketball prodigy Jesus (Ray Allen), to sign up for a scholarship at Big […]
A Spike Lee Joint: 25th Hour
Monty (Edward Norton) is a drug dealer in New York whose busted when police search his house. 25th Hour documents his final day of freedom which he spends with his […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Inside Man
When a masked criminal (Clive Owen) robs a New York bank, it’s up to a seasoned hostage negotiator (Denzel Washington) and his young partner (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to foil “the perfect […]
Suffergettes
Yesterday there was an interesting article on the Independent website, which is surprising enough in itself these days. It was a piece by Harriet Williamson about misogyny in horror films, which […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Mo’ Better Blues
Denzel Washington is Bleek Gilliam, a trumpeter from Brooklyn, New York. He plays with his band, including his egotistic saxophonist Shadow (Wesley Snipes), and has to deal with his gambling-addicted […]
Cursed or The Catwoman Effect
As regular readers will know, I’m fond of werewolf movies, so the prospect of one directed by horror legend and all-round nice guy Wes Craven was something I was eager […]
A Spike Lee Joint: School Daze
Set in Mission College, a black university, School Daze follows a number of characters through their relationships and friendships during the first few weeks of term. This is basically your […]
Mary Poppins
With this week’s release of Saving Mr Banks, about the troubled production of Mary Poppins, I decided to re-watch the classic film, to see if it was worth Walt Disney […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Clockers
In Brooklyn a young man called Strike (Mekhi Phifer) takes up hustling for a local drug boss, Rodney (Delroy Lindo). When a murder takes place, and Strike’s brother Victor (Isaiah […]
Screen Goblin 