Poor Things
Pinocchio meets Frankenhooker in the sci-fi they should have called Pinocchi-ho. Set in Victorian London, Poor Things concerns a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who puts a child’s brain in an […]
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Zombieland: Double Tap
The poster for Zombieland: Double Tap boasts (or rather threatens) “from the director of Venom and the writer of Deadpool.” Personally I’d have gone with “from the producer of Gilmore Girls.” […]
The Favourite
Aptly named for awards season, The Favourite concerns a power struggle between the ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the manipulative Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and new arrival Abigail (Emma Stone), […]
Easy A
There’s a long tradition of movies that start with a lie that spins out of control, from 1961’s The Children’s Hour (my teachers are lesbians!) to this year’s Yardie (I […]
Elle
One-man Dutch movie industry Paul Verhoeven directs Elle, or as Cineworld lists it, Elle (French). Not a prequel to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (I don’t know what that means either), Elle stars Isabelle Huppert as the […]
La La Land
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a jazz pianist and actress respectively, who both pursue their dreams in sunny Los Angeles. She has high aspirations as an actress and he […]
Clueless & Mean Girls
Imagine my surprise when a double DVD set of Mean Girls and Clueless was delivered to Screen Goblin HQ when I hadn’t even ordered it – regardless of what my Amazon history […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 6: Woody’s Dead
The Jewish High Holy Days seem like the perfect time to bring back my Woody Allen double-bills, where I review one of the auteur’s best films and one of his worst. Crimes […]
Birdman
Birdman is the latest addition to the already well-furnished sub-genre of films about how hard it is being a writer/actor. Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thompson, a washed-up movie star best […]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Andrew Garfield steps into the famous spandex suit for a second time. Two years on and he’s still dating Gwen (Emma Stone), haunted by her dead father (not literally) whose […]
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