Argo (2012) – Review

The worlds of Hollywood and international intrigue have always been good bedfellows. Just look at the proliferation of political thrillers in the 70s, or the

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) – Review

Sequels are a wobbly tightrope to negotiate – especially once a considerably expanding universe grows to a point where it has to ditch the shackles

Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016) – Review

Back in 2014, the dark forces that be conjured up the movie known as Ouija to contend with the growing hunger for jumpy ghost flicks

Ouija (2014) – Review

Ah yes, the trusty Ouija board. Where would the horror genre be without that infamous bit of kit that lets generations of idiot teens chat

Calibre (2018) – Review

One of the biggest dangers of streaming is having your film getting buried alive under the weight of an indifferent algorithm. Many a film has

Passengers (2016) – Review

Just because you have a good concept for a film, it doesn’t mean that your finished movie is immediately guaranteed to work. Obviously you have

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse (2015) – Review

As versatile creatures as they are, there’s something about zombies that makes them perfect foils for comedy. Shambling, clueless beasts at the best of times,

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) – Review

We’ve discussed the trials and tribulations of building a better sequel here before; but how do you follow a story like The Hunger Games and

The Cabin In The Woods (2011) – Review

By late 2011, deconstructing horror movies was fairly old hat thanks to the efforts of four Scream movies and any other fright flick that fancied

The Hunger Games (2012) – Review

Before we start down the rabbit hole of a dystopian, science fiction franchise that seemed to trade on turbulent love triangles just as much as

Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) – Review

As long time fans of cinematic zombie outbreaks know, there’s no real good place for the infected dead to pop up. Farm houses are death

Werewolves Of The Third Reich (2017) – Review

A quick warning for anyone who hastily selected this title from an algorithm thinking that someone had gone and made a feature-length film based on

Seven Psychopaths (2012) – Review

Back during the 90s, in the wake of such movies as Reservoir Dogs and Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, there were a rash of

Salt (2010) – Review

For a while there, it seemed like the spy movie was predominantly a boy’s club that gave such agents as James Bond, Jason Bourne and

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) – Review

While he’s certainly had his issues off-screen, there’s no one else in Hollywood that can quite equal Mel Gibson when it comes to approaching something

A Cure For Wellness (2016) – Review

While many would know Gore Verbinski chiefly from helping to unleash Captain Jack Sparrow upon an amused world, the director was responsible for far more

The Commuter (2018) – Review

Does Liam Neeson suffer from problems with unfamiliarity or something? I mean, we all like a daily routine, but by 2018 it really did seem

Lone Survivor (2013) – Review

I don’t know about you, but modern war films are a little tougher for me to embrace than ones that concern themselves over older conflicts.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) – Review

If any franchise was in dire need of a ground up reboot, it’s the Puppet Master movies. By 2017, depending on who you ask, there

Immortals (2011) – Review

In 2006, Zach Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300 seemed to be the last word in giving Greek history/myth a phantasmagoric, visual, glow-up that seemed

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