Prometheus, to be ironically fair, was a mixed beast. Promising far more than it delivered, Ridley Scott’s flawed return to the Alien franchise he started
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Alien: Resurrection (1997) – Review
Surely an Alien movie from the director of Delicatessen and City Of The Lost Children and written by Joss Whedon has GOT to be a
Destroy All Monsters (1968) – Review
By 1968, Toho Studios had been on something of a Kaiju roll for well over a decade, but, behind the scenes, rumblings were occuring that
Avengers: Endgame (2019) – Review
And so here we are… at the end.A journey that’s encompassed 10 years, 22 movies (and counting) and that rewrote the rules of franchise filmmaking
King Kong Escapes (1967) – Review
Despite their routinely “out there” plots, most of Toho’s monster output still manage to make a certain amount of sense when judged by their own
Furious 7 (2015) – Review
When the sun gets high and hot and the days get longer and longer, we reach the glorious time when the IQ of movies drop
King Kong (1933) – Review
Comfortably perched on it’s own metaphorical Empire State Building as the greatest action/adventure movie ever made, King Kong lives up to his name. Inspiring virtually
Mothra (1961) – Review
Ishiro Honda – surely the Stan Lee of monster movies – by this point in his career had belted out more than his fair share
Jaws 3 (1982) – Review
I guess the simplest way of kicking off a review of the third movie of the Jaws Franchice would be to simply state the obvious:
Ebirah: Horror Of The Deep (1966) – Review
An attack of the crabs is never pretty, especially from one the size of Madison Square Garden, but that’s unfortunately only one of the issues
Dragged Across Concrete (2018) – Review
As his previous duo of features quite eloquently proved, an S. Craig Zahler movie is nothing to fuck around with. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In
Rodan (1956) – Review
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that all Japanese monster movies are cut from the same cloth and that they’re pretty much
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) – Review
With the X-Men saga seeingly wrapped up (sort of) after the events of underwhelming The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox were free to use mutant
Aliens (1986) – Review
Is there a more satisfying sequel than Aliens? Scratch that rhetorical question for a minute and let me fire off another. Is there a more
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) – Review
After the bright light that was the Sam Raimi series of Spider-films flickered and died with it’s third bumpy instalment, Sony Pictures was left with
Invasion Of Astro-Monster (1965) – Review
Over the last couple of Godzilla movies, a noticable swing toward showing the King Of The Monster’s in a more heroic light was emerging and
Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973) – Review
By the time Godzilla and the rest of his monstrous, cinematic ilk had loped to 1973, quality wasn’t really that much of a requirement. TV
The Fate Of The Furious (2017) – Review
OK, first things first, yeah? If the testosterone fuelled, physics mocking, rubber burning, super-franchise that is the Fast & Furious universe still isn’t your thing
All Monsters Attack (1969) – Review
By the tenth movie in Godzilla’s cinematic odyssey, some bright spark at Toho realised that the greatest resource in keeping the King Of The Monsters
X-Men (2000) – Review
In this time of MCU’s and Nolanverse’s, where costumes, characters and plots can to some extent be ripped clean out of a comic book, it’s
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