Usually the news that Paul W.S. Anderson is returning to direct anything, let alone another chapter of the frequently obnoxious Resident Evil franchise, isn’t exactly
Tag: 2010s
The Crazies
In among the many phases the horror genre went through at the turn of the Millennium, surely the most bittersweet was that of the blatant
The Hateful Eight
For Quentin Tarrantino’s eighth movie (he counts Kill Bill 1 & 2 as one movie and so should you) he’s gone back to his previous
Victor Frankenstein
I don’t know about you, but everytime Hollywood desides to partake in a new, re-envisioned take on a classic horror tale, I can’t help but
The Purge: Election Year
After an arguably uncertain start, The Purge managed to move past it’s home invasion themed first movie to fully realise it’s potential as a John
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Living as we do in the time of Rotten Tomatoes and other online grading platforms, the simple art of the aggressively 3-star action movie seems
Escape Room
Any of the twelve of you out there who are crazily desperate for a gore free Saw ripoff can rest easy, because Escape Room exists
Mortal Engines
I don’t know about you, but I always find it somewhat awkward when I settle down to watch a big, lush movie based on a
The Purge
Regardless of your personal feelings about Blumhouse’s franchise of political psycho-thrillers, you can’t deny they’ve burrowed into the public consciousness to an impressive degree –
Oblivion
At what point does a film that steals lots of other movie’s concepts for it’s own reach a point where all those ideas end up
White House Down
In yet another example of seperate Hollywood studios wheeling out the exact same concept to do battle like two hideously unoriginal Pokemon trainers, 2013 saw
The Purge: Anarchy
The common consensus concerning the orginal Purge, Blumhouse’s typically political 2013 slasher/thriller, is that it wasted it’s thought provoking premise by restricting it to have
Saw: The Final Chapter
And so – after a staggering seven movies in seven years – the Jigsaw express finally screeched into its final stop with a flurry of
Ghost In The Shell
Despite a short, low budget spell back in the 90’s Hollywood and Anime had generally avoided each other like recent exes at parties when it
The First Purge
After the last, rather tepid, Purge I personally predicted that that special (thankfully fictional) night in America, where everyone puts on overly elaborate head gear
Lucy
Back in 2014, Scarlett Johanssen seemed to be on somewhat of a hot streak thanks to her stunning, near wordless performance in the wonderfully divisive
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
One of the most consistently irritating things about the Resident Evil franchise is that they usually end on a massive change on the status quo
Beneath
Even if we solely count the various, voracious beasties that thrash and dart beneath the surface of earth’s various oceans, lakes and rivers, the genre
Beyond Skyline
Back in 2010, Skyline descended into cinemas with a low budget and high ambitions. Telling the tale of a blue tinged alien invasion as told
Skyline
After achieving what Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger failed to do for years by stopping the Aliens and the Predators dead in their tracks after
