Total Recall (2012)
Of all the movies to remake, cult films seem a particularly bad prospect. Fans don’t necessarily love the characters or stories independently of the film, they’re fans of the film […]
Tag Archives: Colin Farrell
Widows
Widows follows a group of women whose criminal husbands are killed in a police shootout after a heist. As their deceased spouses ill-gotten financial gains are reclaimed they are left […]
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Denzel Washington bags an Oscar nomination as a lawyer in this conceptually confused version of Philadelphia. The usually effortless Washington, out of his comfort zone like Donald Trump doing a […]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos directs this follow-up to his 2015 film The Lobster. It follows a couple, doctors Anna and Steven (Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell), whose children fall ill in unexplained […]
The Beguiled
Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]
Alexander
Oliver Stone directs this sub-Gladiator sword-and-sandal epic charting Alexander of Macedonia’s ground-breaking attempt to sob his way across Asia. Alexander boasts an all-star cast, with Colin Farrell in the lead […]
The Lobster
Colin Farrell channels Dougal McGuire, as he checks in to a dystopian spa, where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or else be turned into an animal of […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 3: Cassandra’s Dream Warriors
As my co-goblin Alex completes his Spike Lee journey, similarities between Spike Lee and Woody Allen emerge. Both are auteurs, generally writing, directing and even starring in their own movies. […]
Saving Mr. Banks
As an experiment, myself and my co-goblin Alex are writing this review between us, but you’d never tell because we’ve made it appear seamless using goblin magic. So, 50 years […]
The Recruit
If there’s a better way to fill our limited time on this earth than watching mediocre crime thrillers I still haven’t found it. In The Recruit Al Pacino reprises his role as a law […]
