Disturbia
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum. That’s simultaneously the lyrics to the Rihanna song Disturbia and my review of the Shia LaBeouf film Disturbia. LaBeouf, who recently announced his retirement from life, […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
Stir of Echoes
There exists a cinematic phenomenon known as twin films, whereby two movies with identical premises are released in the same year. Last year there was White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. 1998 gave […]
The People Under The Stairs
1991 was a good year. And not just because both of us here at Screen Goblin were born. Cinematically, it gave us The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2 and The People Under […]
Guys and Dolls
We love Sesame Street here at Screen Goblin, and their Monsterpiece Theater segments introduced us to some cinematic classics before we’d even heard of cinema. So as a thinly-veiled excuse […]
American Hustle
One of the first major releases of 2014 is David O. Russell’s American Hustle. Or is it David O. Hustle’s American Russell? Either way, add it to the ever-growing list of […]
Solace
Solace is a portmanteau thriller from 2013. Remember 2013? The film is comprised of three interconnected two-handers set in a single location – the first a car, the second a house […]
The Goblin Awards 2013
We were planning to do a “best of 2013” type blog post for the end of the year, but with a cinematic year about as inspiring as a pizza flavoured […]
All Is Lost
Robert Redford is on a boat, in the new survival movie All Is Lost; just about the bleakest possible name for a film, short of calling it He’s Fucked. With Gravity still floating around the […]
Frances Ha
Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old dancer living in New York, struggling with her relationships, career and quirkiness. Frances Ha was written by real-life couple Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 5: Cassandra’s Dream Child
When choosing a good Woody Allen film and a bad Woody Allen film to review, I tend to use Rotten Tomatoes as a guide. But this time the consensus seems, […]
