Stigmata (1999) – Review

The year was 1999 and with the millennium approaching, Hollywood was finding itself morbidly being drawn into a minor spurt of satanic panic as the

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The Thursday Murder Club (2025) – Review

We all love a whodunit now it seems, and whether it’s Kenneth Branagh’s version of Hercule Poirot, or Daniel Craig’s lusciously accented Benoit Blanc, there

Shopping (1994) – Review

Witnessing a filmmaker’s debut isn’t always a blueprint to predicting where their career is going to take them, but sometimes, sitting down to watch their

The Brothers Grimm (2005) – Review

Sometimes the studio system and visionary filmmakers simply don’t mix and never has this been more evident than with Terry Gilliam who seemingly has made

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) – Review

There’s always that pressure for sequels to expand on all that has come before, but where do you go when the franchise started by being

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) – Review

While it makes a certain amount of financial sense for certain, modern trilogies to double up on their final two installments (before the arrival part

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) – Review

It’s always a pleasant surprise when a forgotten genre suddenly returns from the dead and enters the awaiting arms of a respective audience – but

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) – Review

So I think we can all agree that the live action bow of Hasbro’s 3.75-inch, square jawed global enforcers could hardly be described as a

G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (2009) – Review

When enjoying/enduring the delights of a big budget summer flick, it often helps to deploy something that I call “the inner twelve year old”, an