Sometimes there’s nothing more reassuring than settling down and watching a good old homage. Call it nostalgia, or possibly my rapidly advancing age, but watching
Sometimes there’s nothing more reassuring than settling down and watching a good old homage. Call it nostalgia, or possibly my rapidly advancing age, but watching
As season 3 continues on its tireless efforts to get all of the plot threads ignored or abandoned by the relentless energy of season 2
Technically, Quentin Tarantino has never done a sequel – except that he has. When the bosses at Miramax mistakenly decreed that a general audience wouldn’t
Why are the horror icons of the eighties so difficult to recast? Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster never had this trouble, with Gary Oldman and Robert
With another episode we get yet another example of why season 3 of Ash Vs Evil Dead is steadily moving the show into more confident
By its fifth movie, Pixar was in full swing of producing a string of instant classics that’s almost impossible to beat – however, while the
When news of the latest kaboom-fest from Roland Emmerich was due to land, I genuinely had mixed emotions. Emmerich had been semi-regularly bombarding our multiplexes
Compared to some of his Universal Monsters stablemates, the Frankenstein’s Monster has had quite the smooth franchise. While Dracula’s follow ups concerned all sorts of
During that mad rush in the 90’s where filmmakers rushed to take advantage of state of the art digital technology to realise every cinematic wet
I really didn’t want to be carrying on with every review of Ash Vs Evil Dead’s third season by going on and on about how
One of the most fascinating ways to compare the differences in the way American movies approach their storytelling when put alongside their global counterparts is
It’s always a pleasure when you find a classic horror film that contains elements that feel incredibly modern – well, they don’t come more modern
There’s always a slight sense of trepidation whenever a director chiefly linked with genre work gets a sniff of respectability and moves away from the
It’s ironic that the central thread of the third season of Ash Vs Evil Dead concerns Ash having to mature (somewhat) and act like a
By 1999, movies involving the Persian Gulf war were usually ramrod straight dramas that treated the still-fresh struggle against Saddam Hussein with a grave respect
Throughout the two seasons so far of his small screen comeback, Ashley J. Williams (aka. The Chosen One, aka. El Jefe) has had to overcome
After bringing back the Pirate movie back from Davey Jones’ locker, super producer Jerry Bruckheimer then turned to the video game genre to try and
From Hellraiser’s fourth installment onward, the quality control had been taking a noticable nosedive with every subsequent episode. Slashed budgets and the opting and retooling
As the direct to DVD sequels to Tremors rumble ever onward, it’s good to know that even someone as jaded as I can be surprised
Sequelizing Pixar movies beyond Toy Story seems to be very much the taboo subject and leads to many conflicting emotions. For an animation powerhouse of