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
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Planet Of The Apes (1968) – Review
Surely one of the more esoteric sci-fi franchises ever to exist, the Planet Of The Apes movies are a fascinating mash up of game changing
Beyond Re-Animator (2003) – Review
Sometimes, just sometimes, even the decline in quality of a genre franchise isn’t enough to keep you away from a world that you enjoy spending
Independence Day (1996) – Review
There’s a wave of nostalgia that envelops certain movies that really fail to hold up when the cold, cruel light of modern day is shone
Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991) – Review
The many and varied grotesque gallery of characters that populate the horror exploitation genre is ever growing and anyone who’s anyone manages to wring multiple
Unbreakable (2000) – Review
As someone who reviews movies for neither fame or fortune (come to think of it… why the hell AM I reviewing movies then?), I pride
Split (2016) – Review
Emerging from the impressive tailspin that pretty much left his name in tatters, that cheeky little Spielberg/Hitchcockian hybrid known as M. Night “what a twist!”
Basket Case 2 (1990) – Review
80’s trash overlord Frank Henenlotter made his name in the realms of insanely low budget horror with the gloriously deranged Basket Case, the twisted tale
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
Rocky II (1979) – Review
Back in 1979 sequels weren’t exactly the booming business it is now (example: pretty much every franchise ever made INCLUDING this one) but Sylvester Stallone
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
C.H.U.D. (1984) – Review
When they focus on matters other than beheadings and bloodshed the horror genre may be the most politically charged type of movie out there (aside
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
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review
There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when
Rocky (1976) – Review
Regardless of which sport manages to float your boat (including boating), surely the most cinematic sport of them all must surely be boxing: a literal
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
The Revenant (2015) – Review
And with a swirl of promotion, that contained Oscar hysteria for Leo Dicaprio, hyperbole about the extreme filming style and a ludicrous amount of rumour
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
Boyz N The Hood (1991) – Review
In these divisive times in which we live it’s incredibly distressing that John Singleton’s 1991 classic Boyz N The Hood is still as fiercely relevant
Hannibal
Following up Silence Of The Lambs was always going to be a fool’s errand (in BOTH book and movie form) and yet how could Hollywood
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