Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
11-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) navigates puberty, religion and New Jersey (among other forms of knitwear) in this new adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic period drama. A groundbreaking novel in […]
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Decades after helping to kickstart the modern superhero genre (and I’m not talking about Darkman), Sam Raimi returns to Marvel to juggle scripture, magic and a whole lot of people […]
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Those feeling deprived of Eurovision this year will be pleased to experience the next best thing – but enough about the Eurovision in Isolation podcast; here’s a mind-numbing Netflix movie. […]
Red Eye
A Canadian, an Irishman and a statesman walk onto a plane in Wes Craven’s 2005 thriller. The story that sees a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) caught up in a terrorist […]
Disobedience
Rachels Weisz and McAdams star in this Orthodox Jewish community-based drama that oughtn’t be passed over. In his first English-language feature, Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman) continues to tallit like […]
Game Night
If you watched David Fincher’s The Game and longed for all the weird tension to be replaced by generic gags, might I recommend Game Night or a long hard look […]
Doctor Strange
It’s the fourteenth outing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I think!) and we’re now well into relatively unknown ‘second tier’ superheroes. Next on the list of ‘properties we haven’t used […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Most Wanted Man
The late Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this espionage thriller about the search for Chechen immigrant Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), who is deemed a threat to security upon illegally entering Hamburg. Adapted from […]
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