A Quiet Place
Fans of this VW ad will be pleased to hear it’s been made into a feature film. Not to be confused with Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place […]
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The Goblin Awards 2017
After an Oscars ceremony where the biggest surprise was a Christopher Nolan movie winning awards for sound, please welcome your host for the annual Goblin Awards! Worst Actor Let’s kick […]
Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg’s second film in 3 months is Ready Player One, written by dodgy bearded poet Ernest Cline (writer of the best-selling novel) and Zak Penn, who presumably combine to form […]
Princess Mononoke
A demonic curse leads the young prince Ashitaka (Yōji Matsuda) to San (Yuriko Ishida) AKA Princess Mononoke; a raised-by-wolves eco-warrior and a princess in name only, like Leia or Eugenie. The war between civilisation […]
Phantom Thread
Don’t worry, Phantom Thread has nothing to do with The Phantom Menace. Just like the new Star Wars films. Following the success of There Will Be Blood, writer/director Paul Thomas […]
Love, Simon
Simon (Nick Robinson, not that one) leads a normal high schooler’s life (for “normal” read “charmed”) except that he’s keeping his homosexuality a secret in Love, Simon; a title that’s […]
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Celebrities dabbling as inventors is nothing new; who can forget Will.i.am’s smart watch that (inadvertently) doubles as a needle for drawing blood, or Gwyneth Paltrow’s bath salts that mask natural […]
A Fantastic Woman
After being conditioned to be wary of movies with “Fantastic” in the title (Fantastic 4, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fantastic […]
Game Night
If you watched David Fincher’s The Game and longed for all the weird tension to be replaced by generic gags, might I recommend Game Night or a long hard look […]
8 Mile
Essentially Saturday Night Fever with hip-hop, 8 Mile stars Eminem as B-Rabbit, an aspiring rapper living in a trailer park outside Detroit. Eminem’s semi-autobiographical drama follows a tried-and-tested template, the only […]
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