Fiddler on the Roof
The Jewish community of Anatevka lives a modest but peaceful life in tsarist Russia. Farmer Tevier (Topol) works hard for his family, and dreams of marrying off his five daughters […]
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Left Behind
Named after Nicolas Cage’s career, Left Behind is a Christian thriller set during the rapture. Remember the rapture? It was all the rage back in 1981, 1994, 2011 and various other dates for which […]
Amadeus
We look back on 1984’s Amadeus to commemorate the recent loss of its writer Peter Shaffer (and because the DVD was cheap in Sainsbury’s). This octuple-Oscar-winning drama tells the story of […]
Gods of Egypt
We missed this film when it came out. After causing a serious box office stink across the pond, its time in UK cinemas was severely limited. I’m not even sure […]
Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway takes the limelight as screen legend Joan Crawford in this tale of child abuse against her daughter Christina (Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid). An adaptation of Christina’s memoirs, […]
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Bird on a Wire documents Leonard Cohen’s 1974 20-date tour of European cities, from Dublin to Tel Aviv. The story of this documentary’s path to cinema screens is a remarkable […]
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford plays Mildred Pierce, a housewife-cum-restraunteur (or “housewife cum restraint” if you ask my spellchecker) who struggles to meet the demands of her materialistic daughter Veda (Ann Blyth). But […]
She Done Him Wrong
It’s we goblins’ first foray into the fabulously flirtatious world of Mae West, the iconic filth-monger of the 1930s, whose outrageous innuendoes inadvertently ushered in a new age of cinematic […]
Traffic
This is not a biopic of psychedelic rock band Traffic, but it does feature a lot of drug use. Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic has the distinction of going up against another Soderbergh movie, Erin Brockovich, for the Best Picture Oscar […]
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Heed the advice of the Grateful Dead, who once sang: “Look out, look out, The Candyman.” Mind you, they also said “Look for a while at the china cat sunflower,” so […]
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