Remember the days when all you had to do to describe certain action movies was to finish the sentence “Die Hard in/on a (insert final
Remember the days when all you had to do to describe certain action movies was to finish the sentence “Die Hard in/on a (insert final
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It’s so weird that for most of a career delivering rip roaring action adventure movies or sentimental family movies, Steven Spielberg tended to get fairly
There’s no denying that Daredevil is emphatically back. The suit, the violence, the cast (or at least the ones that survived the first episode) and
While Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds contain a lot of great stuff, one of the best things about QT’s shamelessly revisionist war movie is that it
Ever since Clerks hit the scene back in 1994, Kevin Smith had carved a fairly impressive niche for himself as a guy who knew how
It’s been said that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but in 1995 we got a third option that gave the gender
The 2000s were a weird time for horror sequels. Studios had figured out that nobody wanted to watch a part 7 of anything anymore and
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Heist films tend to mostly be either unfeasibly well oiled machines of slick, technical expertise or zippy quirk-fests that see an ensemble banter just as
Every generation has their own personal examples of gateway horror. For me it was Jaws, as repeated viewings left me hankering for stronger stuff the
Giallo is a weird genre, isn’t it? Like, it’s not enough to be part slasher, part whodunit, but it has to heap layers of psychosexual
OK, so thanks to an opening episode loaded with shock deaths and tense face/offs, it’s pretty damn clear that Daredevil is back, but he’s seemed
Some plots are as immortal as gods, resurfacing time and time again to tell the same story so many times, you’d be forgiven for suffering
They say that God gives his toughest battles to his strongest servants, and if that’s true, then Daredevil must be one tough son of a
When it comes to crafting a horror film, sometimes the hook of the basic story is almost as important as the finished film itself as
Hey, remember that period of time when Owen Wilson was an action hero? I’m not just talking about him playing spacey sidekick to Jackie Chan
Hey, remember The Fugitive? That was a good film, wasn’t it? Harrison Ford unjustly fingered for the murder of his wife and going on the
You have to give the the Ginger Snaps franchise all the respect in the world for the way it approached its sequels when the powers