Bumblebee
Remember the ’80s?? E.T.? The Smiths? Stuff blowing up? It’s all here in Bumblebee, a Transformers prequel in which the conceptually confused robot/alien/bumblebee/VW Beetle (you could call it a hybrid) crash-lands on Earth and is […]
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The BFG
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl book follows orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) as she befriends a Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) – even though his name is tautological, the stupid […]
Xtro
Yesterday, my co-goblin Alex reviewed the new Shakespeare adaptation Macbeth; today, I’m reviewing alien B movie Xtro. You can’t say we don’t mix it up. This British sci-fi/horror film follows […]
I’ve Never Seen… E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Welcome to a new feature, in which we review classics that we’d inexplicably never seen. It’s a bit like the Radio 4 show I’ve Never Seen Star Wars, except completely different and original […]
