Emerging from the impressive tailspin that pretty much left his name in tatters, that cheeky little Spielberg/Hitchcockian hybrid known as M. Night “what a twist!”
Category: Review
Basket Case 2 (1990) – Review
80’s trash overlord Frank Henenlotter made his name in the realms of insanely low budget horror with the gloriously deranged Basket Case, the twisted tale
The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004) – Review
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most interesting thing about David Twohy’s 2000, science fiction epic Pitch Black was the bald, shiny-eyed, morality vacuum
Rocky II (1979) – Review
Back in 1979 sequels weren’t exactly the booming business it is now (example: pretty much every franchise ever made INCLUDING this one) but Sylvester Stallone
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Review
The noise of a franchise exploding back into life after years spent in slumber is a tough sound to pin down but in Mad Max’s
C.H.U.D. (1984) – Review
When they focus on matters other than beheadings and bloodshed the horror genre may be the most politically charged type of movie out there (aside
VFW (2019) – Review
It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review
There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when
Rocky (1976) – Review
Regardless of which sport manages to float your boat (including boating), surely the most cinematic sport of them all must surely be boxing: a literal
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – Review
No one goes out of their way to prove the rule that the third part of of a trilogy is often the weakest but then
The Revenant (2015) – Review
And with a swirl of promotion, that contained Oscar hysteria for Leo Dicaprio, hyperbole about the extreme filming style and a ludicrous amount of rumour
Midnight Run (1988) – Review
One of the most solidly, unashamedly blue-collar sub-genre in film is that of the buddy comedy. Almost a legitimate genre in it’s own right the
Boyz N The Hood (1991) – Review
In these divisive times in which we live it’s incredibly distressing that John Singleton’s 1991 classic Boyz N The Hood is still as fiercely relevant
Hannibal
Following up Silence Of The Lambs was always going to be a fool’s errand (in BOTH book and movie form) and yet how could Hollywood
BlacKkKlansman (2018) – Review
First up, let me level with you all…This is the first Spike Lee movie I ever got round to seeing. I know, I know! Legitimately
Mad Max 2 (1981) – Review
Sometimes known by the unfeasibly bad-ass title “The Road Warrior”, George Miller’s ambitiously deranged sequel to his own DIY dystopian original somehow is regularly forgotten
The Incredibles (2004) – Review
Despite populating their stories with gaudily coloured monsters, bickering fish and prat-falling playthings, Pixar has no problems when it comes to drilling the hardships of
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – Reviews
The pros of the (still relatively new) practice of filming sequels back to back are all fairly apparent. After all the Lord Of Rings trilogy
Inception (2010) – Review
After impressing the cinema going public with such standout movies such as Momento and The Prestige (two films as notoriously twisty as a piece of
Mad Max (1979) – Review
Undoubtedly the crown jewel of of the 70’s Ozploitation explosion, George Miller’s blistering, dytopian 1979 revenge flick Mad Max kicked opened the doors for Australian
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