I’ve always found it ironic when franchises that concern themselves with characters that keep regenerating back to life get an inordinate amount of reboots in
Tag: 2000s
The Brothers Grimm
Sometimes the studio system and visionary filmmakers simply don’t mix and never has this been more evident than with Terry Gilliam who seemingly has made
Collateral
I’m of the admittedly mistaken belief that thanks to the God-tier quality of his 1995 crime epic Heat, everything Michael Mann has produced since has
Death Sentence
After making his seismic impact on the horror genre with 2004’s Saw, there was the nagging suspicion that fledgling frightmaker James Wan had absolutely no
Shooter
Never was the Mark Wahlberg rule more fully in effect than in Shooter, Antoine Fuqua’s muscular 2007 snipe-fest. What exactly was the Mark Wahlberg rule,
Æon Flux
If there’s nothing that gets on my nerves more, it’s a big budget sci-fi movie that tries to harness a deliriously eccentric animated series while
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The only thing that was surprising about insanely influential screenwriter Shane Black making the long overdue jump to directing was that it took so bloody
Dungeons & Dragons
When news broke that a movie finally based on the legendary role playing game, Dungeons & Dragons was finally being made, there was debate between
Pearl Harbor
To this day, “Bayologists” (the term for the nonexistent scientists I just made up who study the works of Michael Bay) still aren’t entirely sure
Avatar
There’s no doubting the success of Avatar, James Cameron’s all-conquering sci-fi that saw the self proclaimed king of the world defy skeptics once again and
Eight Legged Freaks
Thanks to streaming, direct-to-DVD entries and entities like the Syfy Channel once seemingly churning out similar themed movies at a frightening rate, the onslaught of
Shaolin Soccer
In 2004, director Stephen Chow rocked the world with his cartoonish fusion of Kung-Fu movie and Tex Avery foolishness that birthed the stupendous Kung Fu
Red Eye
After a career boost he enjoyed thanks to a trilogy featuring a certain ghost faced, pop culture obsessed slasher, Wes Craven’s career seemed to be
A History Of Violence
It may be a slightly immature take, but I’ve always gravitated more towards David Cronenberg’s earlier, genre work than his later, more… well, not conventional
The Island
After the frantic chaos of Bad Boys II, there was something of a question as to where Michael Bay would go next after a career
Secret Window
“Write what you know” has always been a major piece of advice when it comes to would-be authors and it’s obviously one that’s of prime
Rollerball
I don’t think I’m saying anything too groundbreaking here (hey, when do I ever?), but one of the primary issues with the majority of modern
Death Race
It’s a common fact that when anyone feels the need to defend the patchy career of Paul W.S. Anderson, they’ll slap a mention of Event
Crocodile
Tobe Hooper, famed director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, has always been famed for having something of a complicated sence of humour that
Ghosts Of Mars
By the time the Millennium rolled around, John Carpenter had gone from a ferocious vital genre voice who always seemed tantalisingly ahead of his time
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