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Family Business

August 2, 2019by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick star as three generations of a mixed-heritage family with history in organised crime. Grandpa Jesse (Connery) raised his son Vito (Hoffman) to follow […]

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The Program

June 8, 2018by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

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 […]

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Hook

March 25, 2018by Alex Chafey 2 Comments

Some 80 years after Peter Pan’s famous adventures, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up has grown up into a corporate lawyer and neglectful father who has forgotten his youthful adventures. […]

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Tootsie

May 9, 2017by Alex Chafey 4 Comments

Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who can’t get a job because he takes his roles so seriously. With his reputation preceding him he resolves to wipe the slate clean […]

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Rain Man

February 2, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Not to be confused with Rayman, this 1988 drama stars a different cartoon character (Tom Cruise) as selfish car salesman Charlie Babbitt, who learns that his deceased father has left his $3m inheritance to […]

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Death of a Salesman

January 5, 2014by Alex Chafey 2 Comments

Dustin Hoffman plays Willy, an ageing salesman down on his luck as his job is threatened and he has to support his layabout grown-up sons Biff and Happy (John Malkovich […]

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Meet the Fockers

December 21, 2013by Alex Chafey 9 Comments

With Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to review a family favourite. What was that? We don’t have a family favourite? Oh well, we’ll have to do Meet the Fockers. Here […]

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Sphere

October 4, 2013by Alex Chafey 3 Comments

A group of scientists are trapped on an underwater rig by bad weather. On the sea bed, they’re sent to investigate nearby wreckage, and possible alien life. Yeah, it’s basically […]

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Mental Illness in Film

September 29, 2013by Alex Chafey 10 Comments

How various groups, from women and racial groups, to LGBT people, nationalities and people of differing political views, are represented in films is a topic of much discussion, including on […]

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Strictly Classified Part 4: All The President’s Men

August 23, 2013by Dan Meier 6 Comments

When discussing the theme of surveillance, it would be an oversight to ignore the Watergate scandal – the root of much of this cinematic paranoia which brought these fears and […]

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