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 […]
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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 […]
The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Godzilla (1998)
1998 was not a great year for films. Top at the box office was Armageddon, a film so bad Michael Bay apologised for it. Elsewhere in the top ten are […]
Quatermass and the Pit
The London Underground has played host to some monstrosities in film over the years: cannibals in Death Line and Creep, werewolves in An American Werewolf in London, and Gwyneth Paltrow […]
Sorcerer
Transporting gallons of nitroglycerin through the jungle, Roy Scheider and his crew drive to the very edge of survival – a bit like Jaws, except this 1977 existential thriller was a […]
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
For reasons that are immediately obvious, it’s hard to name the greatest band that never made it, but this 2010 rockumentary makes a strong case that it’s Fishbone. Everyday Sunshine: […]
