Tagged John Goodman

In 1994, Disney seemed like it could do no wrong. The release of The Little Mermaid in '89 had kick-started the "Disney Renaissance" and the studio was riding high on the success of a string of musical films...

Charlize Theron’s latest action vehicle, Atomic Blonde, oversteers a little in its attempt to escape the limiting description of being “John Wick, but starring Charlize Theron”. Former stuntman and...

Kong: Skull Island drops viewers straight into a world at once familiar and different to that of “creature from another feature” Godzilla. The pseudoscience remains, alongside a menagerie of fantastic...

Mark Wahlberg loves Boston more than you love your own mother. So who better to play the lead in Patriots Day, this emotive dramatisation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? Wahlberg and director Peter Berg...

The first three films made by the Coen Brothers are all great. Excellent, in fact. But Barton Fink is the first that really showed their genius; that they are two of the preeminent filmmakers of our time....

For a certain niche of people in their mid-twenties and younger, a Ratchet & Clank film is a bizarre and nostalgic prospect. Reassuringly, these videogame fan favourites have made it onto the big screen...

Originally filmed from a script called The Cellar, 10 Cloverfield Lane's title actually does it a disservice. This ‘spiritual successor’ is a completely different beast to Matt Reeves' 2008 viral...

Cult films often happen by accident and can acquire a following without much explanation. When we latch onto a film we often experience a feeling of community by sharing a way of looking at the world. Films...

Though advertised as a family comedy, Love the Coopers has a sad undertone, which might be too close to home for some. This isn’t to say the film skimps on Christmas corn, which undoes the good work of the...

Quoth Kenny Rogers: If you're gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right. Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) can’t play it right - can’t play anything right - and so skulks along like a sullen...

"If it was never new and it doesn't gets old then it's a folk song." Starting with the music would probably be logical. Reuniting the Coens with producer T-Bone Burnett some fourteen years after O...

Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...

Following Argo, Clooney and Heslov return with another historical drama infused with humour. At least on paper… Dreadfully constructed setups make the "jokes" fall flat, with the incredible cast...

Following their remake of True Grit, auteur siblings Joel and Ethan Coen have found further inspiration from the 1960s with Inside Llewyn Davis. A perfect companion piece to A Serious Man, the Coens'...