A Star is Born
Lady Gaga takes on a role previously played by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand as Ally, a young woman with an incredible voice, who is discovered by Jackson (Bradley Cooper) […]
Tag Archives: drama
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried star in ecclesiastical psychodrama First Reformed, a name so forgettable that you wonder what they were thinking when Bjorn Again was sitting right there. There […]
I’ve never seen…My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a working class flower vendor on the streets of London. She’s plucked from her meagre existence by Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant phonetician who […]
The Program
We Goblins have a history with this film, having been to a work-in-progress screening of it several years ago. At the request of the film company, and in adherence to […]
Pawn Sacrifice
Tobey Maguire plays chess legend Bobby Fischer, the working class New Yorker who took on the USSR at the height of the Cold War, back when chess was cool before Deep […]
I, Tonya
I, Tonya is the story of Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) and the events surrounding the 1994 assault on rival Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver). Think Black Swan with […]
A Hijacking
Any frequent cinema goer or DVD purchaser knows that the film industry is on the brink of being destroyed by pirates. But apparently pirates operate at sea now, too, which […]
Call Me By Your Name
Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is spending the summer in a villa in Italy with his liberal, intellectual parents. His father, a historian, has a student visiting to study with him, the […]
I’ve never seen…Cabaret
Somehow Cabaret has always passed me by – in fact I typically confuse it with Chicago, which I’ve also never seen. But after 26 years of ignorance, Dan was kind […]
Dark Victory
When a young socialite (Bette Davis) is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, she needs to come to terms with her early death, with the support of a sexy neurosurgeon […]
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