Barton Fink
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a struggling play-write in 1940s Los Angeles. When he’s commissioned to write a wrestling movie, he finds the transition to the big screen hard, spending his days pondering […]
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I’m Not There
This is a biopic of musician Bob Dylan that takes us from his youth as a black child, to his early adulthood, his time as a woman, and his later […]
Hobo With a Shotgun
Rutger Hauer, who you might remember from such films as Blade Runner and…er…Blade Runner, plays a hobo who arrives in a town that’s the lowest of the low. It’s so […]
Maniac
Alfred Hitchcock was an influential director, no doubt about it, but some films show his influence more than others. I reviewed Martin Scorsese’s homage to Hitchcock, Cape Fear, where we […]
Thor: The Dark World
Since the first film, Loki has formed an alliance with aliens and invaded earth. The Asgardians have fixed the thing that lets them fly through space, which Thor has used […]
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish immigrant to New York in a volatile romance with biologist Nathan (Kevin Kline). When they meet young writer Stingo (Peter MacNicol) the three grow […]
The Verdict
Paul Newman plays a down-and-out lawyer who spends his days drinking himself to death, until he’s thrown a lifeline with a seemingly cut-and-dry medical case. But before he can get […]
Good
Viggo Mortensen plays Halder, an author and intellectual who is drawn into the Nazi party after his views on euthanasia are appropriated by the fascists. Mortensen here once again proves […]
On iPlayer: The Devil’s Double
One of the many things Saddam Hussein was known for was his use of body doubles, some of whom he reportedly made have plastic surgery to more closely resemble him. […]
Robocop (2014)
I can’t describe the plot of this film any better than my co-Goblin Dan did in his recent review of the 1987 original. Therefore I’ve copied and pasted it and […]
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