Maintaining the equilibrium of an action movie is a surprisingly delicate business for a genre full of screaming bullets and crunching bone. James Bond is
Tag: 2000s
Reign Of Fire (2002) – Review
There’s nothing quite more frustrating to a lover of crazy blockbuster cinema than a mouthwatering concept that isn’t quite executed as well as you’d hoped.
[REC]² (2009) – Review
Undoubtedly one of the better (if not the best) of the found footage horror genre, [REC] bloodily lurched onto the scene with lashings of style
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) – Review
After the frenetic action gumbo of The Mummy Returns – a hyperbolic action/adventure that placed exhausting action sequences next to career worst examples of CGI
The Mummy Returns (2001) – Review
The early millennium must have been Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory for any filmmaker with adolescent tendencies who had been hired to tackle a sizable summer
Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001) – Review
When movies decide to try and pull off a mash up, the results, by definition, are usually a mixed bag. Sometimes the fusing together of
Shaft (2000) – Review
Back in 1971, Shaft was one of leading lights of Blaxploitation cinema, but you kinda feel that the continuing adventures of the black private dick
Stardust (2007) – Review
Once upon a time, Matthew Vaughan was chiefly known as Guy Ritchie’s producer, but one day he plopped himself into the director’s chair with the
The Final Destination (2009) – Review
Whether by design or by fate, Final Destination arguably had one of the neatest horror concepts of the noughties. Essentially a slasher movie where the
The Omen (2006) – Review
If you’re going to take the time to retool a stone cold classic of 70’s, dread inducing horror, you’d better have a damn good reason
Poseidon (2006) – Review
Proving that it wasn’t just horror movies that got noticeably shiny remakes during the noughties is Wolfgang Peterson’s redo of the classic 70’s sinky ship
Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) – Review
Robert Rodriguez is the very definition of a ‘busy bee’ considering all the shit he seems to have on his plate all the time.Since he
Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead (2006) – Review
For decades Troma has prided themselves on making their particular brand of anti-PC, trash epics and unleashing them on an unsuspecting world with all the
Survival Of The Dead (2009) – Review
It’s a sad fact of cinema that a director’s final film usually isn’t their best and this goes doubley true for the Splat Pack of
Final Destination 3 (2006) – Review
Considering how many people manage to tumble through the cracks of Death’s design, it’s a small wonder that Death itself hasn’t taken time off for
Final Destination 2 (2004) – Review
“Faster, more intense” may be a term far more notorious for George Lucas’ directing style but it’s also a fitting description for a horror sequel’s
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) – Review
Long before Zack Snyder’s much ballyhooed Army Of The Dead placed the ravenous undead in the sand wastes of Las Vegas Nevada, the third instalment
Final Destination (2000) – Review
Following in the deep, deep furrow ploughed in the horror genre by the wildly successful, teen-centric Scream movies, Hollywood dutifully continued putting out movies that
Saw (2004) – Review
Any of you out there snorting in derision at the 5-star rating I’ve decided to heap upon James Wan’s legendarily grimy debut needs to to
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – Review
After squeezing out the lacklustre (yet depressingly profitable) videogame adaptation Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson decided to move onto pastures new when the temptation to
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