Someone was going to take up the baton of hyper-violent, Indonesian action movies after Gareth Evans mic dropped The Raid 2 all over us and
Tag: 2010s
May The Devil Take You
We’ve tackled the homage/ripoff conundrum here many times before and the consensus usually is that if your movie is legitimately entertaining, you can basically get
The Great Wall
Released in that decade where it felt like 70% of Legendary Studios’ output was monster movies, The Great Wall was something slightly different.The most expensive
The Raid
I’m always curious to see where the next action sensation comes from, but even I was surprised by The Raid. Erupting from under the radar
Pain & Gain
After nearly burning himself out on three gargantuan Transformers movies in a row, it’s telling that Michael Bay’s idea of a smaller, intimate movie is
The Last Stand
After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term as the Governator of California was at an end, it was only a matter of time before he found himself back
Super
Consider the rather remarkable career trajectory of one James Gunn.Getting his start in the industry toiling in the filmmaking slums of Troma by penning such
The Ward
It had been about ten years since John Carpenter last directed a feature and his self-imposed retirement had been born of him finally losing his
Terrifier
If there’s one thing the modern horror genre is lacking is a truly endearing antagonist that really captures the imagination of the masses. I mean
One Cut Of The Dead
Patience, they say, is a virtue and for those who can take the time to do things right, great gifts are due to come. Never
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
Believe it or not, despite forging a career making movies where countless special forces teams made up of the military and law enforcement wage war
Looper
Before the resplendent debut of the drawling Benoit Blanc in Knives Out and even the crowd dividing majesty of The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson was
Father’s Day
Since 1974, Troma Entertainment has strived to put out the best in voraciously un-PC content it possibly can on as little money as possible and
Pompeii
I guess we can’t blame Paul W.S. Anderson for wanting to multitask; after all this is a man who once thought it was a good
Inside Out
When civilisation falls and mankind has nothing better to do than sit around bonfires in a dystopian wasteland and discuss “best of lists”, when the
Gods Of Egypt
Surely no other genre in cinema has benefited from the rise of CGI more than the fantasy film with Harry Potter, Middle-Earth and the incest
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
They say that the most important part of any adventure is actually the journey and not the destination, but then if I’m being honest, I
Underworld: Blood Wars
I may have ranted out this particular lament before, but who the Hell insists on watching the Underworld movies enough to the extent that we
Jason Bourne
After an intriguing spin-off that eventually went utterly nowhere, the powers that be decided that instead of offering up Jeremy Renner-shaped alternatives, maybe it was
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Perhaps it’s only fitting that the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies seemed to be getting worse the more money they made at the box office;
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