The Goblin Awards 2022
Please put your hands and faces together for the Goblin Awards, the more in-touch and less violent antidote to the Oscars. The Farm d’Or Stop me if you’ve herd this one […]
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Wolfwalkers
For clear evidence of the American imperialism inherent in the Oscars, look no further than the Best Animated Feature category; a catalogue of sub-par Pixar efforts beating masterpieces from the […]
Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan goes from Weeping Angels to Avenging Angel in this new rape-revenge rom-com. Jarring by design, Promising Young Woman follows medical school dropout Cassie (as in Casandra from Greek […]
The Trial of the Chicago 7
It would be easy to forget the Oscars are still going ahead this year, despite the best efforts of coronavirus and Godzilla vs. Kong. Currently trailing Nomadland in the Best […]
#HateFilms: Forrest Gump
Back in 2014, before we had COVID or Trump or Brexit to talk about, the news included the revelation that footballer Michael Owen had only watched 8 movies in his […]
Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
The Goblin Awards 2019
Welcome to the Goblin Awards, like the Oscars but without a host – which this year makes it exactly like the Oscars. Big Budget – Bad Movie While there have […]
Roma
Between the deaths of that raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy and Liam Neeson’s career, it’s been a weird couple of weeks in movieland. But weirdest of all? A Netflix film is […]
Beautiful Boy
As well as having some sort of ‘unusual sex scene‘ clause in every movie contract, Timothée Chalamet appears to be reliving Leonardo DiCaprio’s career, following up his youthful Oscar nomination with a […]
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