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 […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
Grand Piano
Phone Booth goes tone deaf in this 2013 thriller about a concert pianist (Elijah Wood) and a sniper (John Cusack) who threatens to kill him if he gets a single note wrong. Rather than […]
Jupiter Ascending
There was a time when the Wachowskis were hot property in Hollywood, but now it’s hard to hear their name without hearing ‘watch out, skis!’. Well there are no skis […]
Bean
It’s a cliché of sitcoms on the big screen that the the characters go abroad, and in the case of Mr Bean this trope is used in both films. In […]
Confucius
Chow Yun Fat stars as the legendary thinker of ancient China, charting his rise to a senior member of the royal court, followed by his years in exile. A great […]
The Banquet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is transported back 2,000 years to the opulent surroundings of ancient China, where trouble is brewing in the imperial court. The Crown Prince Wuluan (Daniel Wu) is in […]
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) is a down-on-his-luck factory worker who lives with his blind girlfriend and supports his sister through a serious kidney disease. After he tries everything to get her […]
The 6th Day
The 6th Day is set in the near future (“sooner than you think”), when a cloning company called RePet can make genetic copies of your deceased pets so you never […]
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance is not a gender-swapped version of the Vengaboys, but the third installment in Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. Lee Young-ae is superb as Lee Geum-ja, another brilliantly ambiguous character from […]
The Orphanage
To quote my co-goblin Alex: “Why do people find orphans so scary?” From the shrill hysteria of Orphan to the shrill hysteria of Annie, cinema is rife with stories of […]
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