Blog: Stadium Scenes
Even outside the sporting genre, some of cinema’s finest finales and most stirring spectacles take place in sports stadiums – or stadia, for all our Latin readers. So here are […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
You’ve Been Trumped
As Donald Trump pulls ahead in the Republican polls, let’s see what happened when he tried to build a luxury golf course in Scotland. You’ve Been Trumped is a 2011 […]
The Gift
The Gift is the latest offering from production stable Blumhouse, best known for horror movies Sinister and Insidious. Bumhouse, more like. Like both those films and a thousand others, The Guest (or whatever […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan Hunt is back, in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try to work out what the hell is going on. […]
The Harder They Come
Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of Jamaican independence. More professional websites might have thought this through and reviewed a Jamaican movie yesterday. They might even have bothered to put a […]
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact is directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also plays Riker; following in the actor-director footsteps of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. Suffice to say, he’s better at […]
Inside Out
Inside Out is the latest film to be set in San Francisco; seemingly the setting for every film of 2015, from Ant-Man to San Andreas. Apparently Hollywood screenwriters can’t imagine […]
Cub
Cub (Welp) is a partially crowd-funded Flemish film set at scout camp, in the middle of the woods, supposedly stalked by a werewolf boy. Cub, werewolf, get it? Be Prepared: this is quite a […]
East Is East
Adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, East Is East is the story of a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. Om Puri plays fanatical patriarch George Khan – or Genghis […]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino’s fourth feature (sub-category: terrible title) is Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which I will review in chapters like Tarantino has used in every bloody movie. Chapter I: Fox Force […]
Screen Goblin 