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 […]
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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 […]
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles shot A Touch of Evil in a matter of weeks, but after he wrapped the studio hired a new director for extensive re-shoots, worried about the film’s content. […]
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
This week, Guillermo del Toro announced that the long-mooted Hellboy 3 was officially dead, which seems unfair considering properties as tedious as Captain America get a whole trilogy. Yeah I went there, what’s he going to […]
California Split
Co-starring Elliott Gould and George Segal, Robert Altman’s California Split follows a pair of gamblers as they gambol around California’s gambling halls. It’s obvious in hindsight that Mississippi Grind is a loose remake of this 1974 story of […]
Dune
In the same way the Star Trek TV show facilitated the aggrandisement of space adventures which allowed Star Wars to be made, which in turn proved the genre could be […]
The Stranger by the Lake
Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), a regular at a gay cruising site in France, falls for a dangerous and mysterious man (Christophe Paou) he encounters by the lakeside. Set entirely on a […]
Caligula
Malcolm McDowell plays the permanently titillated titular character in this quasi-historical depiction of ancient pornocracy. It was quite hard (no pun intended) to find an appropriate image for this film, since […]
Unthinkable
A terrorist releases a video claiming to have planted three nuclear bombs in cities across America. After he is apprehended it’s up to an FBI director (Carrie-Ann Moss) and a […]
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