Mickey 17
As part of a mission to colonise an ice planet in the year 2050, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up to be an “Expendable” without reading the terms and conditions. […]
Tag Archives: Mark Ruffalo
Collateral
Fare meters meet 9mms in Michael Mann’s 2004 action movie about a Los Angeles cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who unknowingly picks up a hitman (Tom Cruise). Along with films like Panic […]
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 […]
Avengers: Infinity War
Thanos, the villain first teased in 2012’s The Avengers, finally crashes through the ceiling for his moment in the limelight. In a plan that could have been concocted by an […]
Thor: Ragnarok
Rappers MC Hammer and Lowkey do battle with Grandmaster Flash in this, the third Thor movie. Two more and we’ll finally be able to say: “One to see Thor Five, […]
Spotlight
Spotlight is essentially All the President’s Men transposed for the Catholic child abuse scandal at the turn of the millennium. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev […]
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Some spoilers. You have been warned. Some time after Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Avengers are hunting down Hydra to find Loki’s sceptre. But Hydra has a secret weapon, […]
Foxcatcher
A tiny snippet of St. Stephen by the Grateful Dead plays on the radio in the only enjoyable five seconds of Foxcatcher; the true story of John du Pont (Steve Carell), a billionaire […]
Shitter Island
2010 was a big year for Leonardo DiCaprio, playing not one but two psychologically wounded widowers. There was Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster Inception and Martin Scorsese’s mystery thriller Shutter Island. In Shutter Island, DiCaprio […]
Now You See Me
Time for a new feature in which I review a film frustratingly close to the end of its cinematic run. In this case it doesn’t matter, however, as Now You See […]
Screen Goblin 