Princess Mononoke
A demonic curse leads the young prince Ashitaka (Yōji Matsuda) to San (Yuriko Ishida) AKA Princess Mononoke; a raised-by-wolves eco-warrior and a princess in name only, like Leia or Eugenie. The war between civilisation […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
Hook
Some 80 years after Peter Pan’s famous adventures, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up has grown up into a corporate lawyer and neglectful father who has forgotten his youthful adventures. […]
Koyaanisqatsi
Essentially an extended Philip Glass music video, Koyaanisqatsi takes a long, hard look at human civilazation through beautifully photographed scenes accompanied by some of Glass’s finest work. Beginning with stunning […]
8 Mile
Essentially Saturday Night Fever with hip-hop, 8 Mile stars Eminem as B-Rabbit, an aspiring rapper living in a trailer park outside Detroit. Eminem’s semi-autobiographical drama follows a tried-and-tested template, the only […]
Rabid
It never ceases to amuse me that comedy mogul Ivan Reitman produced a couple of David Cronenberg’s most shocking pictures, which seems incongruous until one remembers the messed-up body horror of […]
Chicago
Of all the films set in Chicago (Grand Piano; Jupiter Ascending), only one is called Chicago… it’s Chicago. Based on Bob Fosse’s classic Broadway show, this 2002 musical follows Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), […]
Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two
Highlighting Pearl Jam’s two-night stint at Wrigley Field, which coincided with the Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory in 2016, Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two is a unique cross between a concert film and a baseball […]
Funny Games (1997)
Funny Games is an Austrian horror film from Michael Haneke of Amour fame, a movie I mention only to include this bizarre video. Part endurance horror and part postmodern finger-wagging […]
Fantastic Voyage
A team of scientists take a trip into the unknown which lasts just one hour and can be measured in centimeters, as they’re shrunk down to microscopic size and head […]
Up in Smoke
Stoners get a bad rap for a group that’s given us Ben & Jerry’s, all modern music and Barack Obama. But when it comes to stoner comedy that lazy reputation […]
Screen Goblin 