Belfast
Kenneth Branagh writes, directs and produces this Oscar-losing drama about a boy named Buddy (Jude Hill) navigating a fraught home and warring community in Belfast, 1969. Let’s call it This […]
Tag Archives: 2021
Nightmare Alley
Bradley Cooper stars in this remake about a carnival drifter turned psychic grifter who cons the wealthy elite into a baffling Best Picture nomination. Watching a Guillermo del Toro movie […]
Lamb
Noomi had a little lamb in this Icelandic folk horror tale of a farming couple (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) raising a sheep as their own. The debut feature […]
Licorice Pizza
This week saw the passing of Peter Bogdanovich, whose 1971 masterpiece The Last Picture Show is one of many reference points in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Licorice Pizza. Just to explain […]
The Matrix: Repetitions
Twenty-to-sixty years after Neo and Trinity (Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss) saved the human race from cyber-imprisonment, the Matrix is still everywhere, the human race is still enslaved, and the […]
Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Just when we had abandoned all hope of getting a decent slasher flick this year, our last-minute saviour comes along in the most unexpected of places: a South African-produced SyFy […]
Shatner in Space
Bill Shatner blasts off in this documentary about his most recent trip to space. Unsurprisingly this Amazon Studios production lionises Jeff Bezos for what we are assured is his environmentalism […]
Return of the Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show, Live!
Seattle’s smartest seasonal drag queens are back on the road with their festive extravaganza, relegated to the studio last year due to the apocalypse. Now into the North American leg […]
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Unless you haven’t been living under a rock these last two years, you will have spent at least some of that time lamenting the absence of a new Resident Evil […]
The French Dispatch
At the French outpost of a small Kansas newspaper, its menagerie of writers recount their most notable stories before the printers stop rolling for good. As with most anthology films […]
Screen Goblin 