Disturbia
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum. That’s simultaneously the lyrics to the Rihanna song Disturbia and my review of the Shia LaBeouf film Disturbia. LaBeouf, who recently announced his retirement from life, […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
Anaconda
A boat full of people go deep into the Amazon, with nothing but basic supplies of hair conditioner, in search of wildlife footage. On their way they’re joined by a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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