Slender Man
Let me start with some real-world background: in 2014, an American kid stabbed a classmate in the woods after reportedly being inspired by Slender Man, a meme that came from […]
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A Spike Lee Joint: BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee parks his tanks on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in this adaptation of the remarkable true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first black detective […]
The Equalizer 2
This sequelizer to The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as the eponymous neutralizer of vandalizers, terrorizers and burglarizers. It’s the perfect film if you want to catch some Zs. Since the […]
Unfriended: Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web is the latest entry into the internet-based found footage sub-genre, or ‘pwned footage’ for short. More an anthology-style successor than a sequel to 2014’s Unfriended (which is […]
The Meg
This US-China co-production is the worst thing to happen in American-East Asian Relations since the Singapore summit. Jason Statham goes back to his diving roots by plummeting to the depths of […]
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried star in ecclesiastical psychodrama First Reformed, a name so forgettable that you wonder what they were thinking when Bjorn Again was sitting right there. There […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The world’s only superhero vulnerable to Henry Hoovers is back and teaming up with the Wasp, whose powers, as her name suggests, involve being an affluent white lady. Scott Lang […]
Incredibles 2
When it comes to sequels, Pixar and baby Jack-Jack have something in common: the Terrible Twos. Monsters University was about as welcome as Freshers’ Flu, and the less said about […]
I’ve never seen…My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a working class flower vendor on the streets of London. She’s plucked from her meagre existence by Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant phonetician who […]
Muriel’s Wedding
Toni Colette is Muriel, a down-beaten young woman who fills the hole in her life with ABBA and dreams of the perfect wedding in her dead-end hometown of Porpoise Spit. Along […]
Screen Goblin 