When Bruce Lee tragically passed, we didn’t just lose a martial arts superstar and a cinematic legend, but we also were cheated out of the
When Bruce Lee tragically passed, we didn’t just lose a martial arts superstar and a cinematic legend, but we also were cheated out of the
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: of all the distinguished actors who decided to hop aboard the aging action hero train, Denzel
According to Christopher Nolan’s underrated magician-at-war film, The Prestige, there are three aspects to every magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn and The Prestige. Fittingly,
There’s a trope that certain franchise hopefuls tend to use that always gets on my tits. You know the one: when a film/tv adaptation of
When Hollywood puts its iron will to it, there really isn’t anything it can’t sequelize; take the existence of The Rage: Carrie 2 for example.Anyone
As Twisted Metal races towards the finishing line of its first season, it’s definitely proven itself to be one of the growing list of video
Do you know, I don’t think I’m ever going to understand the SyFy Channel’s obsession with churning out endless, cheap, killer animal movies for as
Often, when a show needs that extra boost, writers will engage what I like to call the Joss Whedon Protocol – which essentially means someone’s
There’s been a long and storied history of young, visionary directors who chose to semi-remake their rough-looking, low budget debuts with more cash and experience
One of the most notorious tropes of cinema is that of the black character either dying first, or, at the very least, not making it
The special effects comedy is a notoriously tough beast to pull off. Essentially perfected by Ghostbusters back in 1984, filmmakers have been trying to sniff
For a show that’s basically about lunatics driving around a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Twisted Metal has taken some appropriately odd detours when it comes to its
Of all the shifty, manipulative and duplicitous aliens ever to take a punt at taking over the world during the heyday of 50s science fiction,
Over the period of seven episodes, I feel I’ve been incredibly positive about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comedy action show about CIA agents trying to balance their
Anyone in the know would tell you: don’t fuck with New French Extremity because it would most likely fuck you back.Linked to the New Extremity
In the wake of The Matrix, it was unsurprisingly fair game for any kind of action/sci-fi that clothed its anti-establishment leanings in long black coats
Sandwiched between his earlier, gonzoid classics and his later, bigger budgeted, superhero phase, Sam Raimi had, what could be called his “sensible period”. Easing back
After the previous episode of Twisted Metal, we saw the show nudge its steering wheel into a more layered form of storytelling that started integrating
The DCEU, at the current time of writing, is possibly in the greatest state of flux any long-running connected cinematic universe has ever been in.
Popping the clutch, slamming in a high gear and compressing that accelerator pedal down as far as it can go, Twisted Metal roars past the