Look, I love 80s slashers too, but just how many more times can we deconstruct the genre with a mixture of post-modern snark and genuine
Category: Comics
Fiend Without A Face (1958) – Review
To the uninitiated, I guess most 50s sci-fi flicks seem the same. Take a cast of stuffy, exposition spouting, scientist/military types and have them pontificate
Code 8 (2019) – Review
Oh hey, anyone else remember Push, that gritty Chris Evans superhero movie? No? OK then, don’t mind me…I only bring it up because I’m sort
Another Simple Favour (2025) – Review
With A Simple Favour, Paul Feig drastically changed the course of his career after a string of energetic, female-led comedies allowed him to handbrake turn
Over Your Dead Body (2026) – Review
In this day and age, it seems that you can make a comedy about anything, even when playing with the most unfunny of circumstances. Take
Copycat (1995) – Review
While we as a society have always been morbidly fascinated with the concept of serial killers (I once had a friend who had a pet
Priest (2011) – Review
Sometimes your first instinct is bang on the money. Based on a Korean comic book I’ve never read which was in turn based on a
Frankenstein Unbound (1990) – Review
As one of the most oft-adapted stories in history, there’s a sense that not much more could be added to Mary Shelly’s deeply prescient story
Pom Poko (1994) – Review
Up until this point in Studio Ghibli history, you could count on three things – the first was that it was painfully clear that the
Disclosure Day (2026) – Review
Little green (or grey, or brown) men from outer space and Steven Spielberg have gone together like peaches and cream ever since he unleashed the
Catch Me If You Can (2002) – Review
Considering that Spielberg had always been a director that’s quick on his creative feet and able to get us to believe anything (UFOs! Dinosaurs! Liam
It Conquered The World (1956) – Review
God bless Roger Corman. Even as far back as the fifties when he was still directing, there wasn’t a film made that he wasn’t willing
French Connection II (1975) – Review
In 1971, William Friedkin made The French Connection, a savage thriller that delivered an unapologetically squalid look at New York police work courtesy of heavy
Touch Of Evil (1958) – Review
Sometimes people do their best work when their back is against the wall. When hired to appear in sleazy tex-mex noir, Touch Of Evil, former
Ocean’s Eight (2018) – Review
It seemed that the antisocial – but still relentlessly cool – antics of Danny Ocean’s gradually expanding gang of thieves was long since over after
Masters Of The Universe (2026) – Review
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. Take the adapting of Masters Of The Universe for example, the epic, 80s toy line that not only blossomed
Backrooms (2026) – Review
Well, I guess the YouTube era of horror is now in full swing. Hot on the heels of other such success stories as Mark Edward
He-Man And She-Ra: The Secret Of The Sword (1985) – Review
Oh man, remember when feature length toy adverts that you actually had to pay to see were all the rage? Obviously I’m teasing a little
Cape Fear (1962) – Review
Sometimes, watching a film and its remake ass-backwards can be a shocking mistake to make. Watch the redux first – even one as top drawer
Hollow Man 2 (2006) – Review
While Paul Verhoven has made some of the most distinctive sci-fi movies of the 80s, 90s and 2000s, the random string of sequels and remakes
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