We’ve tackled the homage/ripoff conundrum here many times before and the consensus usually is that if your movie is legitimately entertaining, you can basically get
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Creepshow – Season 2, Episode 2: Dead And Breakfast/Pesticide
After a barnstorming premiere episode for Creepshow’s second season, it seemed that the show had finally found its groove with a couple of raucous, yet
Babylon
Damien Chazelle must love the taste of Marmite. I only bring up the notorious spread that famously inspires polarized responses as his new movie, Babylon,
The Last Of Us – Season 1, Episode 2: The Infected
After an absolute cracker of an opening episode, it seemed that The Last Of Us had finally smashed the curse of the video game adaption
Halo – Season 1, Episode 8: Allegiance
After our episode long, momentum destroying jaunt to Madrigal in order to round off the arcs of two supporting characters, we’re back to the main
Peacemaker – Season 1, Episode 8: It’s Cow Or Never
After seven anarchic episodes of spraying bullets, squirting gore and more foul-mouthed diatribes than you can shake a shiny helmet at, we finally come to
Quatermass II
Things so easily could have been different…1957 was something of a pivotal year for Hammer Films thanks to the success of The Quatermass Xperiment a
Beverly Hills Cop III
When Eddie Murphy’s star stopped shining quite as bright as it once was due to a couple of high profile, box office duds, he did
Creepshow – Season 2, Episode 1: Model Kid/Public Television Of The Dead
The Creep, the boney, comic obsessed, wraith-like mascot from horror anthology show, Creepshow is a tough cat to keep down – not content to just
The Great Wall
Released in that decade where it felt like 70% of Legendary Studios’ output was monster movies, The Great Wall was something slightly different.The most expensive
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
After the runaway success of Poltergeist – the result of the controversial union of Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper – a sequel seemed like a
Halo – Season 1, Episode 7: Inheritance
Over the last six episodes, I’ve repeatedly given Paramount+’s Halo series the benefit of the doubt despite constantly having to muscle through endless subplots in
Django
For the majority of casual western fans, the alpha and the omega of the Spaghetti Western is usually considered to be Sergio Leone’s legendary contributions
The Raid
I’m always curious to see where the next action sensation comes from, but even I was surprised by The Raid. Erupting from under the radar
Peacemaker – Season 1, Episode 7: Stop Dragon My Heart Around
There’s always that moment in an action based show where all the build up and teasing leads to that moment we have all been waiting
The Deadly Spawn
Sometimes, there’s nothing more warming to the cockles of my heart than seeing a bunch of youngsters, utterly out of their depth and blessedly naive
The Last Of Us – Season 1, Episode 1: When You’re Lost In The Darkness
I’ve always wondered what a viewer would make of a videogame adaptation who has next-to-zero familiarity with the source material. Not having the reverential love
Creepshow – Season 1, Episode 6: Skincrawlers/By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain
And so, after five episodes and ten stories of wildly varying tone and quantity, the Creep final flicks through the final issue of the first
Halo – Season 1, Episode 6: Solace
After Halo’s previous episode, which finally gave us a chance to see the show seriously play with some of the awsome toys the video game
M3GAN
Back in 1988, a cinematic serial killer used the voodoo Demballa chant to level up after catching a fatal bullet after a foot chase that
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