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 […]
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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 […]
The Goblin Awards 2017
After an Oscars ceremony where the biggest surprise was a Christopher Nolan movie winning awards for sound, please welcome your host for the annual Goblin Awards! Worst Actor Let’s kick […]
A Fantastic Woman
After being conditioned to be wary of movies with “Fantastic” in the title (Fantastic 4, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fantastic […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
New comedy/drama/crime flick Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best Woody Harrelson film with an unwieldy title since War for the Planet of the Apes. Frances McDormand gives another powerhouse performance as […]
The Florida Project
Already generating Oscar buzz, The Florida Project joins the ranks of great movies based in motels, alongside Psycho, Memento, Bug and Memento. While the motel-oriented Lady in the Water is set inside M. Night […]
The Buddy Holly Story
The basket of deplorables isn’t exactly teeming with actors, but two fervent Donald Trump fans are Kristy Swanson and Gary Busey, who played Buffy and Buddy (Holly) respectively. There emerges in […]
