What They Had
Blythe Danner’s family comes home for Christmas after she has an Alzheimer’s episode in What They Had, a name so forgettable it’s almost appropriate. Alzheimer’s Episode might be more apt a […]
ROH: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is one of the most-told works of classic literature. On this blog we’ve reviewed the Boris Karloff version, a Christopher Lee version, the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks version and even […]
Fighting With My Family
This is the true story of a Norwich-based family with wrestle-mania who all dream of fighting in WWE. Brother and sister Zak and Saraya (Jack Lowden and Florence Pugh) compete […]
Shoplifters
Shoplifters is a Japanese drama that lost the Foreign Language Oscar to Netflix’s Roma, which Steven Spielberg thinks is a TV movie – bit rich coming from the director of […]
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Between 2013 and 2016 we reviewed every Planet of the Apes film (with the addition of War for the Planet of the Apes when it was released in 2017). Every […]
The Breaker Upperers
This New Zealand comedy follows a pair of women (Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami) running a company that breaks up couples – essentially Hitch but, like the way toilets […]
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
All I Desire
The premise of 1953 romantic drama All I Desire is almost Showgirls in reverse; Naomi Murdoch (not quite Nomi Malone but close enough) is a faded actress who travels from […]
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones deals out gender justice as future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG. The film starts with a breakneck journey through Ruth’s Harvard days, as […]
Screen Goblin 