Just how an impressively ordinary a movie Jaws 2 is, is quite the thing to behold. Following up one of the greatest blockbusters of all
Just how an impressively ordinary a movie Jaws 2 is, is quite the thing to behold. Following up one of the greatest blockbusters of all
Man, I really wanted to like this one. Not because I’m big on the video game or anything but because I was really hoping that
Joining an established club with entrenched members is never easy, especially when membership means being embraced by the public in general and this goes doubly
There are conflicting opinions as to where to pin point the exact moment when the modern comic book movie finally caught on. Some believe Blade,
Could it be we finally have an easy, 3-step recipe for avoiding the videogame movie adaptation curse? 1) Take 80’s videogame that has no plot
Charlize Theron climbed the action mountain with her superlative role in the sublime Mad Max: Fury road and now she’s returned to the genre with
Try as they might, filmmakers just a can’t seem to give the Predator that flawless second outing he so richly deserves. The original is a
In what’s turning out to be quite a kick ass year for modern horror, this reunion of the Evil Dead remake’s main players (heavily abused
Tricksy, labyrinthine plots are somewhat a double edged sword. Go too simple and the audience pulls way out in front, able to second guess every
After 20th Century Fox had double dipped failure with the uninspiring threequel Last Stand AND the messy prequel X-Men: Origins, they found their franchise in
Snuggled neatly in the centre of Paul Verhoven’s magnificent unofficial Sci-fi trilogy, sits Total Recall (we don’t count Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon’s invisible penis thriller,
By the time it was time to make a sequel to the biggest film in the world, George Lucas backed out. The sheer stress of
As we finally get to the end of Toho Animation and Polygram’s attempt to bring the King Of The Monsters to the anime, an audible
I have to admit, every time Hollywood hurls serious cash at an animal run amok movie, my pulse quickens. Since Jaws tore chunks out of
The first attempt at the fourth book containing the fourth appearance of a character in her fifth film being played by a third actress is
Mankind has been chased off of Earth by the arrival of an infestation of various giant Monsters, the most troublesome of all is, of course,
Back in that shaky period of superhero movie history known as the 00’s, you got what you were given. Yes, this was a period of
Over my many years of watching blockbuster movies, I feel I’ve developed quite the bullshit detector when it comes to hype. Taking trailers, on-set reports
On paper Roland Emmerich was the perfect choice to wrangle Godzilla on his first American funded rampage. Seriously, check it. The stats all line up.
It all starts with a fanfare, a blast of trumpets that’s almost a literal slap in the face. “PAY ATTENTION” it sceams, “Your world is