When making a pre-planned trilogy, you would think that guaranteeing a strong opening or a satisfying ending would be the most challenging thing to pull
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Resident Evil – Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome To New Racoon City
I’ve been weirdly fascinated/confused at the continuing attempts to make Resident Evil a thing beyond the series of iconic video games that exists as the
Back To The Future (1985) – Review
If you were to hop into a time travelling Delorean and zapped ahead fifty or sixty years into the future (while hopefully avoiding your relatives,
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) – Review
It doesn’t take much to invoke images of Clint Eastwood’s stoic, crafty, cigar gnawing anti-hero, The Man With No Name, but a quick blast of
Extreme Prejudice (1987) – Review
Walter Hill’s desire to make almost everything he’s ever directed feel like an impossibly gritty western is well documented, but with his dusty, bullet casing
Ms. Marvel – Season 1, Episode 6: No Normal (2022) – Review
During its run, Ms. Marvel has been something of a show of ups and downs.In the up column has been the show’s main focus of
Underworld (2003) – Review
Ever since Dracula and the Wolf Man briefly butted their heads in the closing moments of Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hollywood has sporadically tried
The Bourne Identity (2002) – Review
On a long enough timeline, James Bond will always be the premier name in cinematic spydom simply because he’s lasted the longest and that’s given
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) – Review
It’s always a pleasant surprise when a forgotten genre suddenly returns from the dead and enters the awaiting arms of a respective audience – but
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) – Review
“The world has changed, I feel it in the water.”With these prophetic words spoken in Cate Blanchett’s Elven baritone, the face of cinema was virtually
Ms. Marvel – Season 1, Episode 5: Time And Again
The continuing (and frankly unnecessary) debate about diversity in popular culture has always been a strange subject to rail against. Not only is it invaluable
Elysium (2013) – Review
Sometimes it’s tough to capitalize on a debut movie no matter how many innovative ideas a young filmmaker has whizzing around on the inside of
Pieces (1982) – Review
Advertised in some corners of the world with the brazenly unsubtle tagline “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre”, Pieces is
Lockout
Cinema as we know it is well over a hundred years old at this point so the recycling of existing ideas is all but accepted
Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) – Review
While it’s Loki who’s normally known for his miraculous resurrections, surely the most impressive comeback the Odinson clan have ever pulled off was Thor’s comedy
Angel Heart (1987) – Review
Film noir has had some radical variations over the years; from Ridley Scott’s moody, future shock, extravaganza, Blade Runner, to Rian Johnson’s Raymond Chandler inspired
Shocking Dark (1989) – Review
We’ve stumbled across the works of Bruno Mattei – aka. Vincent Dawn – a couple of times on this site before (arguably too much) but
Ms. Marvel – Season 1, Episode 4: Seeing Red
Like any good superpowered teen adventurer, it’s always good to keep your feet on the ground (metaphorically speaking, that is) by keeping in contact with
The Beyond (1981) – Review
To a layman of 80’s Italian horror, it would painfully easy to cast a disparaging eye over the frenzied output of Lucio Fulci and dismiss
Platoon (1986) – Review
I can’t speak for anybody else, but in my mind, common wisdom decrees that there is an unholy trinity of quintessential Vietnam movies that’s made
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