Barry Lyndon
After receiving death threats in the wake of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick headed to Ireland to adapt Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon only to be threatened by the IRA […]
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Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters to make the movie that would narrowly beat it, as Beverly Hills Cop cleverly comes top of the 1984 box office. This action-comedy about a […]
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ahead of September’s new Rambo movie (Rambo Number 5?) let’s look back on this 1985 sequel and ultraviolent Coca-Cola advert. Not so much a film as a catalogue of shots […]
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 […]
Screen Goblin 