Straw Dogs
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]