Changing what makes a hit franchise work can be a perilous business, just ask the filmmakers behind Halloween III. Screw with convention all you want,
Tag: 2010s
The Thing (2011) – Review
As a rabid fan of arguably John Carpenter’s greatest movie, the news of a follow up was legitimately bittersweet news. While the opportunity to lay
The Mummy (2017) – Review
Watching the 2017 attempt to resurrect The Mummy is painfully awkward in more ways that one. The quality of the movie itself notwithstanding, screen writer
The Howling: Reborn (2011) – Review
If your franchise has a bankable name in the horror genre, there’s a pretty good chance that it’ll have to baffling extended lifespan of a
Shaft (2019) – Review
After remaining stubbornly dormant for nearly 20 years after Samuel L. Jackson slipped on the black turtle neck, I don’t think anyone was really expecting
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) – Review
Hollywood’s history of 30 years later “legacy” sequels (give or take) hasn’t exactly been a badge of quality – long mooted returns like Independence Day:
Super 8 (2011) – Review
Ever since he made the leap from small screen hot shot to big screen blockbuster magnet, it’s safe to say that the movie career of
The Three Musketeers (2011) – Review
It’s easy to picture the people who keep financing Paul W.S. Anderson’s forgettable movies as a smug cabal of European money men desperate to crack
Critters Attack! (2019) – Review
Of all the late-in-the-day franchise resurrections that spring up all over the place lately, I don’t think anyone was expecting the alien flesh-eating furballs Critters
The Magnificent Seven (2016) – Review
Critics weren’t overly kind to “Mag 7”, the remake of A Bug’s Life which was the remake of Battle Beyond The Stars which was the
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) – Review
Despite the occasional blip, the Resident Evil franchise is as reliable as their increasingly annoying codas that usually close their movies with a massive status
Final Destination 5 (2011) – Review
Despite death being a tireless entity that eventually comes for us all, it seems that it only had five movies in it, which surprises me
The Legend Of Tarzan (2016) – Review
Hands up if you can remember the last Tarzan movie you saw? Not even the last GOOD Tarzan movie, just the last one, period.A George
47 Ronin (2013) – Review
When 2021 ends, there will have been two big budget action films financed by American money that feature Asian leads. Obviously time will tell whether
The Reef (2010) – Review
In the swirling wake left by 2003’s Open Water, filmmakers realised that by utilising modern camera technology with old school guerilla filmmaking, your killer shark
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) – Review
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
The Crazies (2010) – Review
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 (2015) – Review
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 (2015) – Review
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 (2016) – Review
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
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