Sometimes, to REALLY explore what a sub-genre can do, you have to go elsewhere from the norm; not that there’s much normal about the vast
Sometimes, to REALLY explore what a sub-genre can do, you have to go elsewhere from the norm; not that there’s much normal about the vast
One major plus point about the classic Planet Of The Apes franchise, regardless of your opinion about the sequels that followed in the original’s wake,
Back between 1993 and 1997, when the original Jurassic Park and it’s sequel burst into the public consciousness like a rampaging saurian ploughing through a
As we all know that 80’s Saturday morning cartoons were candy coloured, sugar-dusted forms of unsubtle psychological manipulation used in order to sell toys to
The Scream series has many things which sets it apart from it’s similarly stab-happy, slasher brethren but one of the more radical is that it’s
Exploding onto consoles in 1996, Lara Croft made gamers sit up and take notice as she raided said tombs with her trademark duel weapons (I
Those who sat through the stupendously depressing ending of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes would be completely forgiven for angrily muttering “oh fuck off”
If we’re being brutally honest, the world wasn’t exactly clamouring for a sequel to the 2010 Clash Of The Titans any more than they were
If you ever needed an example of how truly brilliant Steven Spielberg is you would have to look no further than 1993.Why is that year
With the rousing success of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream, a film that attached jumper cables to the nascent slasher genre and juiced it
Raucous horror comedies can be a mixed bag at the best of times even though the 80’s had more of it’s fair share of blood
In many ways Planet Of The Apes has the perfect ending. While Charlton Heston’s flinty astronaut bellows his impotent rage at the revelation that the
Steven Spielberg is rightly credited as birthing the modern blockbuster with the release of his toothy masterpiece Jaws, a film I personally hold as the
By the mid nineties the horror genre was practically dead on it’s feet. Not shuffling around zombie dead you understand, but bleeding out, stabbed multiple
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
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
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
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
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
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