Being anything but white and straight in any kind of slasher film has usually meant either one of two things, 1) you’re guaranteed deader than
Category: Review
The Mummy
Back 1999, I remember emerging from the cinema feeling a little nonplussed about The Mumny, Stephen Sommers’ mega budgeted remake of the classic Universal horror
Blade Runner
The history of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is as almost notorious as the movie itself; an agonisingly uncomfortable shoot had virtually everyone at each other’s
The Dead Pool
Not to be confused with Ryan Reynolds’ notoriously hyper-verbal superhero, The Dead Pool proved to be the fifth and final case for Clint Eastwood’s ever
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
When movies decide to try and pull off a mash up, the results, by definition, are usually a mixed bag. Sometimes the fusing together of
El Dorado
Howard Hawks was a legendary director and producer, but perhaps his most famous works exist in that of the most American of genres – the
The Fly
Its fitting that David Cronenberg’s fantastically goopy remake of 50’s creature feature contains a central, gradual metamorphosis of a misunderstood genius – after all, The
The Many Saints Of Newark
So, before we get started, I guess it’s time to address the scowling, Italian-American elephant in the room – to date I have never seen
Star Trek: Generations
Sooner or later it was inevitable that the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation would finally get their long awaited upgrade to step over
No Time To Die
One of the many tropes that feels familiar from many a Bond film is the moment a villian settles back in a large armchair whilst
Shaft
Back in 1971, Shaft was one of leading lights of Blaxploitation cinema, but you kinda feel that the continuing adventures of the black private dick
House IV: The Repossession
Surely a prime contender for the lesser known “Why Was This Even Made Award” at the Oscars, you have to wonder what the reasoning was
Stardust
Once upon a time, Matthew Vaughan was chiefly known as Guy Ritchie’s producer, but one day he plopped himself into the director’s chair with the
Howling: New Moon Rising
“Do you know what sort of wolf killed this man?”. “A big one?”.This is the sort of dialogue that greets us as we take an
The Final Destination
Whether by design or by fate, Final Destination arguably had one of the neatest horror concepts of the noughties. Essentially a slasher movie where the
Sudden Impact
Reviewing the sequels that followed in the wake of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry is somewhat of a thankless task these days. Oh, don’t get me
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
If I’m being honest, when choosing to settle down with a good old western, I usually choose to pick the more stylised, epic works of
Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy
“How stupid can you get?” Demands the long suffering Bud Abbott to his even longer suffering partner Lou Costello at one point during this last
Super 8
Ever since he made the leap from small screen hot shot to big screen blockbuster magnet, it’s safe to say that the movie career of
The Three Musketeers
It’s easy to picture the people who keep financing Paul W.S. Anderson’s forgettable movies as a smug cabal of European money men desperate to crack
