Blue Velvet (1986) – Review

It’s easy to imagine that David Lynch – cinema’s premier practitioner of surreal dream weaving – was always incredibly steadfast in his abilities when it

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True Romance (1993) – Review

Back when Quentin Tarantino was only one movie deep into his two-film conquest of Hollywood, the assault was carried on in his stead by a

Space Truckers (1996) – Review

Despite bursting onto the horror scene with a gaggle of winningly extreme gorefests in the mid 80s, Stuart Gordon had a rather strange affinity for

The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) – Review

If I had to pick out only one difference between James O’Barr’s gently vicious comic book, The Crow and the sequels that came in the

Waterworld (1995) – Review

There’s always a stigma that clings to a film like a barnacal if it flops and it was especially true in the 90’s. If your

Super Mario Bros. (1993) – Review

I may have mentioned this somewhere before, but I truly believe there’s a special breed of blockbuster that’s considered so bad, that I reckon they

True Grit (1969) – Review

John Wayne accumulated as many iconic roles in his legendary career as anyone else I can recall – which is doubly impressive when you consider

The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965) – Review

It seems that as long as you put a six shooter in his belt, an unforgettable line of tough guy wisdom in his mouth and

Land Of The Dead (2005) – Review

Twenty years after the sun went down on George A. Romero’s 1985 zombie epic, Day Of The Dead, fans had anxiously been awaiting to see

Speed (1994) – Review

There’s no pop quiz required here, hotshot…No other actor in movies has routinely (almost unknowingly) appeared in so many different films that ripped up the

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) – Review

The years have been pretty kind to Tobe Hooper’s madcap and legitimately deranged sequel to his cold stone original classic but it wasn’t always the