The Mask
In our semi-regular feature of pretending to celebrate a movie’s anniversary, we take a look back at 1994’s The Mask; the wacky comedy starring Jim Carrey as a hapless loser who finds […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
X-Men: First Class
I don’t know much about the Cuban missile crisis, and I certainly didn’t realise the extent of Kevin Bacon’s involvement. Obviously I knew he had something to do with it, […]
X-Men: The Last Stand
Long enough after X2 for the X Mansion to be rebuilt, things are looking up for the magnificent mutants. Magneto is on the run, there’s a mutant in the cabinet, […]
X2
X2 AKA X-Men 2 AKA X-Men United, a title that was fortunately ditched presumably because it sounds like a football team, is the second instalment of the X-Men franchise. Three […]
X-Men
In the near future, people are being born with strange superpowers. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) can read people’s minds, Cyclops (James Marsden) can shoot lasers from his eyes, and Halle Berry […]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary about the revolutionary Zephyr skateboarding team of California in the mid-1970s, narrated by a stoned Sean Penn. I should say for legal reasons […]
A Hotel Triple-Bill
A recent stay in an Israeli hotel left me with limited viewing options, thanks to the TV in my room exclusively showing movies in which Brendan Fraser gets attacked by […]
Animal Crackers
A popular defence of Marxism is that it was “funnier at the time”, and while this may be true, from a modern perspective we can’t help but see it as […]
A Bronx Tale
This is the story of a young boy called C (Lillo Brancato and Franci Capra) and the challenges he faces growing up in a rough New York neighbourhood. He is […]
The Woodsman
Sex offending is one of the toughest subjects you can tackle in a film, but there are some great examples of how to do it right. Films like Michael, Mysterious […]
Screen Goblin 