Clueless & Mean Girls
Imagine my surprise when a double DVD set of Mean Girls and Clueless was delivered to Screen Goblin HQ when I hadn’t even ordered it – regardless of what my Amazon history […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Money Monster
George Clooney, Jack O’Connell and Cenk Uygur star in Money Monster, not to be confused with the Honey Monster – though like Sugar Puffs, the film is enjoyable at the time but ultimately unsatisfying. During […]
On iPlayer: Margin Call
You can now watch 2011 financial drama Margin Call on iPlayer – or if you don’t want to watch it, just imagine if The Big Short was made by a proper filmmaker […]
The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights is the 15th Bond film and the first to star Timothy Dalton as super-spy, bad-taste comedian and misogynist James Bond. After the sheer silliness of the Roger Moore era, Dalton […]
The Darkness
The latest laughable title from Bumhouse is The Darkness, not to be confused with the rock band of the same name – though like the band, this film is shrill and doomed to […]
Friend Request
Friend Request is directed by Simon Verhoeven, the grandson of German director Paul Verhoeven – as opposed to the famous Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (I’m confused). Friend Request is the latest entry into the surprisingly […]
Victoria
This German thriller takes place in the small hours in Berlin, and follows a young Spanish woman (Laia Costa) who hits it off with a local guy (Frederick Lau) – until things […]
Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle directs, co-writes and stars in this new film based on jazz legend Miles Davis. Miles Ahead is not a biopic – at least not in the traditional sense. […]
Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky is a military thriller about an operation to capture Al-Shabaab extremists in Kenya; not to be confused with Iron Sky, which is about Nazis on the Moon. The […]
Scratch
Scratch is a 2001 documentary about hip-hop, DJing and turntablism, which you can and should watch on YouTube. Like skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys or drag doc Paris is Burning, […]
