Housebound
A woman under house arrest begins to suspect her family home is haunted in this 2014 New Zealand horror/comedy they should have called Rear ASBO. Available on iPlayer, Housebound draws […]
Tag Archives: 2014
I’ve Never Seen… Paddington
10 years since the release of Paddington, it seems everyone has seen the pro-immigration bear movie except us and successive British governments. Paul King’s caniform classic follows a marmalade-loving bear […]
Cowspiracy
Documentarian Kip Andersen takes on not just animal agriculture but the environmental charities which are happy to give it a free pass in the debate over how we can reduce […]
The Purge: Anarchy
The second chapter in The Purge series finds us in 2023, when Purge night (the annual 12-hour event when all crime is legal) has saved the economy. Because apparently the […]
Ouija (2014)
From the company that brought you Transformers, Battleship and Jenga 2: The Brickening (it’s only a matter of time) comes Ouija, a horror movie based on the famous bit of wood. […]
The Way He Looks
Blind, classical music-obsessed teen Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) struggles to fit in at school and strives to find independence from his over-protective parents. He’s helped by supportive best friend Giovana (Tess […]
He Who Dares
Downing Street is under siege in this action movie whose most realistic aspect is how easy it is to get into Number 10. This rip-off of Olympus Has Fallen and […]
Dracula Untold
There have been many, many big-screen incarnations of Bram Stoker’s blood-sucking bat-man, but precious few of them have tackled his origins. Enter Dracula Untold, which takes us back to when […]
Heal the Living
This French film from 2014 follows two families: the parents of Simon (Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gabin Verdet), a 17-year-old boy who’s left brain dead after a car accident; and […]
When Marnie Was There
Released in 2014, When Marnie Was There was Studio Ghibli’s final film – until 2020’s How Do You Live? was announced by Hayao Miyazaki, a man who comes out of retirement almost as often […]
Screen Goblin 