Tag: 2009

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) – Review

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

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Avatar (2009) – Review

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

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Max Manus: Man Of War (2009) – Review

What with the endless parade of World War II  movies out there that’s focused on the efforts of the British or the Americans, it’s easy

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Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009) – Review

When a franchise resorts to going down a prequel route, it’s usually a sign that the series has finally bled out and run dry of

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Up (2009) – Review

We could wax lyrical about which moment from Pixar’s laundry list of emotion searing moments hit hardest, but know this: if your answer isn’t the

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Drag Me To Hell (2009) – Review

Over the years, Sam Raimi has been at the bleeding edge of using his movies to torment and torture a surprising array of actors on

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Dragonball: Evolution (2009) – Review

I’m sure many people will beg to differ (and I’m sure I’ve already mentioned this somewhere before), but accuracy isn’t strictly necessary in order to

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Solomon Kane (2009) – Review

Most fantasy movies geared toward a mature audience usually stumble when trying to merge it’s more fantastical elements with more adult themes such as graphic

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Inglorious Basterds (2009) – Review

After Tarantino ditched the suited, gangster goings on of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Bell for the super stylized shenanigans of the Kill Bill

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Star Trek (2009) – Review

Star Trek was dead.Just let that settle in your head for a bit – after first being broadcast in 1966 and doggedly remaining vital in

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[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

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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

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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

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2012 (2009) – Review

During his long career as Hollywood’s go to disaster artist, Roland Emmerich has probably toppled more landmarks than the entire Kaiju cast of Destroy All

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Saw VI (2009) – Review

After the rather drab fifth installment, it seemed like the relentless, annual, murder-machine known as the Saw franchise had finally come to a screeching, grinding

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Knowing (2009) – Review

The legendary A-bomb of the acting community, Nicolas Cage has regularky marked his career with different phases over the years like the changing of a

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G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (2009) – Review

When enjoying/enduring the delights of a big budget summer flick, it often helps to deploy something that I call “the inner twelve year old”, an

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Friday The 13th (2009) – Review

With all the horror remakes whizzing around the place during the noughties, it’s frankly amazing that a Friday The 13th remake took so long to

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Watchmen (2009) – Review

Based on renowned misery-wizard Alan Moore’s legendary DC graphic novel (some say the greatest ever written) Watchmen takes place in an alternate universe where costumed

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Zombieland (2009) – Review

Set to the pounding snarl of Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, we are thrust head first into the gleeful wonders of Zombieland, a delightfully

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