We Are X

May 22, 2017DVD, Film, MusicJapan, Rock, We Are X, X, YoshikiMostlyFilm

Spank The Monkey reviews a new documentary telling the story of Japan’s most unGoogleable rock band

Famous Last Words

March 6, 2018FilmAguirre Wrath Of God, Birdy, Brazil, Brief Encounter, Crank 2: High Voltage, Fat City, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Gunbuster, King Kong, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Paris Texas, The Apartment, The Breakfast Club, The Third Man, The Wedding Banquet, The Winslow Boy, There Will Be Blood, This Is Spinal Tap, Touch Of Evil, Whistle Down the WindMostlyFilm

For the last ever post on MostlyFilm, we’ve assembled as many current and former contributors as possible to show you their favourite endings from the movies. Technically, there may be spoilers. So, that’s it from us. Thanks to all of you out there for reading over the last seven years! It’s been a pleasure and … Continue reading Famous Last Words →

Shortly Oscars 2018

March 2, 2018Animation, Film, Short Films, The OscarsDear Basketball, DeKalb Elementary, Garden Party, Lou, My Nephew Emmett, Negative Space, Oscar nominated, Revolting Rhymes, The Eleven O'Clock, The Silent Child, Watu WoteMostlyFilm

For the climax of MostlyFilm’s final week of existence, we’re bringing you an entire weekend of Oscar coverage. On Saturday, you’ll get a full list of our predictions: on Sunday, our team will be with you throughout the night covering the awards ceremony in as live a fashion as they can manage. But to start … Continue reading Shortly Oscars 2018 →

SEVEN OF SEVEN – Monoglot Movie Club: Epitaph 1

February 28, 2018Film, Monoglot Movie Club, Seven Of SevenBlade of the Immortal, Call Girl, Kon-Tiki, Men and Chicken, MIa Madre, Monoglot Movie Club, New Kids Nitro, Qalb al AssadSpank The Monkey

Continuing our look back on the last seven years of MostlyFilm, here’s the final part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Egypt, Denmark, Italy and Japan, 2012-2017.

Mostly Farewell

February 25, 2018Announcements, Film1900, Apocalypse Now, Essex Boys, FilmUnlimited, Jamie Oliver TV excrescence, MostlyFilm, Repo Man, Shaft, they say this cat CaulorLime is a bad motherharrybackhouse

Okay, we said we were closing down back in December, but we really mean it this time. Nevertheless, MostlyFilm has TEN BLOODY DAYS of premium content for you before we pull down the shutters, with one or two new posts every day from now until Oscar night and beyond. To introduce our week-and-a-bit of wonders, … Continue reading Mostly Farewell →

#NotAllBatmen

December 22, 2017FilmMostlyFilm

…but nearly all the Batmen? Actually, Clooney, Kilmer, Bale or Batfleck fans will have to look elsewhere. But forget that cowardly, superstitious lot. After the jump, five MostlyFilm writers shall shine a light on the most interesting iterations of the dark knight detective.

Monoglot Movie Club Special: Netflix i Chłód

December 18, 2017Comedy, Monoglot Movie Club, Streaming, TelevisionSpank The Monkey

It’s the end of an era for us; indeed it is the end of us. After almost seven years, MostlyFilm – for most of this decade, Europe’s Best Website – is calling it a day. But we’re not going to just walk away without leaving you a few things to remember us by. Between now … Continue reading Monoglot Movie Club Special: Netflix i Chłód →

Harry Dean Stanton

September 22, 2017Actorsalien, Harry Dean Stanton, In Memoriam, Paris, Paris Texas, Pretty In Pink, TexasMostlyFilm

When you’re deep asleep and not dreaming, where the fuck are you? There’s total blackness, it’s nothing, right? So I’m hoping that’s what death is, that it’s all gonna go. I don’t want to deal with any consciousness afterward. – Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017)

The Good Place

September 20, 2017Streaming, TelevisionSpank The Monkey

A full year after it was originally broadcast, The Good Place is finally coming to the UK via Netflix. Spank The Monkey watched it on a plane a while ago: maybe now he’ll finally stop banging on about it to everyone.

Shin Godzilla

August 15, 2017Japanese cinema, New Releases, UncategorizedGodzilla, Shin GodzillaSpank The Monkey

Godzilla is back, and doing what it does best: embodying Japanese anxieties about nuclear annihilation. Spank The Monkey approves. (Of Godzilla, obviously, not of nuclear annihilation.)