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
Tag: 2007
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,
Ratatouille
If anyone really needs to see the true genius of Pixar laid out bare, they only really have to look as far as the studio’s
Dead Silence
After the surprise hit of Saw, the fiendish horror/thriller from horror’s hot new things, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, things sort of went quiet there
The Bourne Ultimatum
There are many problems that Jason Bourne seems to deal with on a semi-regular basis, but who would have thought that the amnesiac super-spy’s biggest
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
There’s always that pressure for sequels to expand on all that has come before, but where do you go when the franchise started by being
The Hills Have Eyes 2
When compared to that other long running franchise of inbred mutants indulging in their vulgar pastimes with stranded holiday makers, The Hills Have Eyes runs
1408
Anyone planning to to adapt a Stephen King story has quite the weight of expectation to match up to, but anyone willing to tackle a
Planet Terror (Grindhouse)
In my review for that other member of the Grindhouse double bill, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, I briefly laid out the history of his and
Death Proof (Grindhouse)
Quentin Tarantino has always prided himself on keeping his audience off balance with the plots of his movies – or as he eloquently words it:
In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
I understand that dragging the limited talents of Uwe Boll through the mud these days is somewhat akin to flogging a dead horse with an
Hitman
I recently got into an argument with a good friend of mine concerning this forgotten video game adaptation from 2007.The disagreement arose when I noticed
3:10 To Yuma
Western remakes aren’t exactly new – hell, Howard Hawks himself went out and remade Rio Bravo twice in the form of El Dorado and Rio
Shoot ‘Em Up
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
Stardust
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
Resident Evil: Extinction
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 installment
Saw IV
Another year saw yet another entry from the number one series to stagger bloodied and traumatised from the taboo-humping genre known as Tourture Porn (although
Hannibal Rising
Even the most ardent Anthony Hopkins/Hannibal Lecter fan who have to agree that the serial killing psychiatrist was oddly long in the tooth and noticably
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The prominent sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick has been blessed with some of the greatest adaptations a writer could ever hope to nab. While inevitably
Diary Of The Dead
The late, great George Romero was more than capable at trying his hand at all kinds of horror, but the man will forever be linked
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