We’ve encountered Bruno Mattei on this page before, but for those unfamiliar with possibly Italian cinema’s most blatant rip off artist, here’s a quick run
Category: Action
Blue Thunder (1983) – Review
The helicopter is one of the most important inventions next to the gun and the car when it comes to the action thriller; I mean
Broken Arrow (1996) – Review
After crafting God-level action classics back in his native Hong Kong, John Woo inevitably made the leap to Hollywood after his 1992 epic Hard Boiled
‘The Man From Toronto’ – Official Trailer
Netflix have released the trailer for ‘The Man From Toronto’. A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world’s deadliest
Strike Commando (1987) – Review
Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Review
“I have to say, I wasnt expecting to be invited back.” Confesses a slightly more humbled version of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the fighter pilot blessed/cursed
The Delta Force (1986) – Review
Say what you will about First Blood Part II’s bombastic attempts at catharsis in the wake of the Vietnam war, at least it never contained
Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) – Review
While the landscape has certainly changed since Tremors first surfaced back in 1990, the jocular killer worm franchise has managed to get a lot of
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) – Review
Every now and then a movie comes along that’s utterly unlike anything you’ve seen before, is both mind blowingly original and devastatingly intimate and on
The Crow (1994) – Review
In a tragic parallel to the movie itself, the accidental death of Brandon Lee on the set of 1994’s comic book adaptation of James O’
Tears Of The Sun
Whenever Hollywood decides to poke its nose into actual conflicts that rage around the globe, things can often get a little awkward. Sometimes we get
Dead Heat (1988) – Review
The buddy cop movie has had some strange variants over the years with everything including dogs (K9), mom’s (Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot) and
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022) – Review
Good God, has it really been nine whole years since Sam Raimi last directed a feature film (the defiantly “ok” Oz The Great And Powerful)
‘Interceptor’ – Official Trailer
Netflix have released the trailer for ‘Interceptor’. Meet the world’s last defense. One Army captain must use her years of tactical training and military expertise
‘Fast X’ Gets A New Director
Following Justin Lin’s departure Universal have moved quickly and approached Louis Leterrier in regards to directing ‘Fast X’. If he signs on the film’s first
Top 5 Sam Raimi-est Sam Raimi Moments NOT From The Evil Dead Trilogy
I know there’s some out there who don’t want to hear it, but there’s more to Sam Raimi than the deranged pleasures of the Evil
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) – Review
Jan De Bont’s 1994 thriller, Speed, is one of the greatest examples of the 90’s actioner that exists despite not featuring Nicolas Cage and it
Sudden Death (1995) – Review
Now before you roll your eyes and complain that I’ve given way too high a rating to a film that’s not only a blatant Die
The Lost City (2022) – Review
If there’s one genre I used to despise during my youth, it was the kind of goofy rom-com that tended to be so horrifically predictable,
The Northman (2022) – Review
In merely two films, director Robert Eggers has positioned himself to being the go-to guy for traumatizing yet rich experiences in a period setting. 2015’s
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