Stir of Echoes
There exists a cinematic phenomenon known as twin films, whereby two movies with identical premises are released in the same year. Last year there was White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. 1998 gave […]
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Charlie Kaufman: Human Nature and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
My love of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich is well documented on this blog, so naturally I expanded my viewing further into the world of Charlie Kaufman, the screen writer […]
The People Under The Stairs
1991 was a good year. And not just because both of us here at Screen Goblin were born. Cinematically, it gave us The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2 and The People Under […]
Dave
When the President (Kevin Kline) falls into a coma, his ambitious aides find a lookalike called Dave (also Kline, obviously), to put in his place with the intention of maneuvering Chief of […]
Guys and Dolls
We love Sesame Street here at Screen Goblin, and their Monsterpiece Theater segments introduced us to some cinematic classics before we’d even heard of cinema. So as a thinly-veiled excuse […]
The House I Live In
When Colorado became the first state in the world to fully legalize recreational marijuana this week, some declared the war on drugs over. But what is the war on drugs? […]
Solace
Solace is a portmanteau thriller from 2013. Remember 2013? The film is comprised of three interconnected two-handers set in a single location – the first a car, the second a house […]
Dracula (1958)
Librarian Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) travels across Europe to seek out the infamous Count Dracula (Christopher Lee), who’s sort of like a white Blacula. This is the film that […]
Frances Ha
Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old dancer living in New York, struggling with her relationships, career and quirkiness. Frances Ha was written by real-life couple Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig […]
Antiviral
When Duncan Jones, the offspring of David Bowie, made a low budget sci-fi film, it was met with some surprise. Less shocking is Brandon Cronenberg’s foray into the genre, as […]
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