After being smeared all over the promotional material for creaky, low-budget, face-kicker No Retreat, No Surrender – despite being the villain – Belgium muscle bulger
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Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) – Review
Back in the day, before part 4’s, 5’s and 6’s started bloating out virtually every long running franchise out there – there was something comforting
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) – Review
Thanks the rebel crushing and son maiming efforts of The Empire Strikes Back, it’s always been accepted that the follow up should always endeavour to
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) – Review
By as early as 1981, Steven Spielberg had pretty much already set his legacy in concrete with the releases of the genre defining Jaws and
Tenet (2020) – Review
What with pandemics and social anxiety making the world around us an ever more stressful environment, you may be forgiven for feeling the urge to
Ong-Bak (2003) – Review
There’s a story about sternum-crushing Thai juggernaut Tony Jaa that I really hope is true. When asked during an interview who his influences are, one
The Old Guard (2020) – Review
Immortals wandering among us while striving to avoid rubbing their death-resistant existence in the faces of us “normies” isn’t exactly a new concept but new
Hard Boiled (1992) – Review
While no doubt conjuring images to the uninitiated of a documentary about egg preparation, those of you who only know Hong Kong action maestro John
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
Mr. Vampire (1985) – Review
Sometimes, to REALLY explore what a sub-genre can do, you have to go elsewhere from the norm; not that there’s much normal about the vast
G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) – Review
As we all know that 80’s Saturday morning cartoons were candy coloured, sugar-dusted forms of unsubtle psychological manipulation used in order to sell toys to
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Exploding onto consoles in 1996, Lara Croft made gamers sit up and take notice as she raided said tombs with her trademark duel weapons (I
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) – Review
Touted upon release as Die Hard in the White House, it would have made more sense to describe Olympus Has Fallen as merely Air Force
The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004) – Review
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most interesting thing about David Twohy’s 2000, science fiction epic Pitch Black was the bald, shiny-eyed, morality vacuum
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Review
The noise of a franchise exploding back into life after years spent in slumber is a tough sound to pin down but in Mad Max’s
VFW (2019) – Review
It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – Review
No one goes out of their way to prove the rule that the third part of of a trilogy is often the weakest but then
Midnight Run (1988) – Review
One of the most solidly, unashamedly blue-collar sub-genre in film is that of the buddy comedy. Almost a legitimate genre in it’s own right the
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – Reviews
The pros of the (still relatively new) practice of filming sequels back to back are all fairly apparent. After all the Lord Of Rings trilogy
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