It would seem that Louis Leterrier was indeed the best choice in order to remake the 1981 fantasy epic that so famously featured Ray Harryhousen’s
Tag: 2010s
Dunkirk (2017) – Review
Before we get things started, I’ve a quick point to make: can we stop describing every movie with a sizable budget that goes for a
Train To Busan (2016) – Review
In many ways, the zombie genre over the last twenty years has behaved much like zombies themselves. Uncontrollably spreading in number like a virus and
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) – Review
Back in 2017, the orginal 47 Meters Down helpfully warned us of the dangers of cage diving when Matthew Modine is running the show and
The Visit (2015) – Review
After a seemingly endless string of movies that turned out to be boring, dopey or just outright awful, it seemed that Hollywood twist fanatic M.
Spectre (2015) – Review
Over his fifty-odd year movie career, old Jimmy Bond has faced many threats, Goldfinger, Jaws, a Madonna cameo… But the biggest threat he had in
Skyfall (2012) – Review
As we came up to Daniel Craig’s third outing sipping vodka martinis, beding willing women and essentially writing off virtually every vehicle and building he
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) – Review
After Michael, Jason and Leatherface all had shiny new updates all throughout the noughties (Chucky trailed behind and got one in 2019 whereas Pinhead never
Riddick (2013) – Review
Thirteen years after the debut of Riddick, the silvery eyed space criminal made relatively famous by chrome-domed franchise junkie Vin Diesel, David Twohy was enlisted
Jigsaw (2017) – Review
After a hiatus, John Kramer (a.k.a. The Jigsaw Killer, a.k.a. didn’t that guy die back in part 3?) has returned despite no one really asking
Color Out Of Space (2019) – Review
I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site about the difficulty hollywood has had in trying to visualise the unearthly works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (H.P. to
Toy Story 3 (2010) – Review
Cinema is littered with trilogies that narrowly missed nailing the hat trick, scoring two out of three falls, or simply just having one weaker entry.
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) – Review
Over the last couple of decades, through a sheer force of will that belays his mortal existence, Vin Diesel seems to be collecting franchises the
Parasite (2019) – Review
The dictionary describes the word “parasite” as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (2018) – Review
The first Sicario, a flawless, brutal yet grimly beautiful thriller concerning policing the Mexican cartels and the dodgy, godless shit the government spooks pull to
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) – Review
I’ve never known the pain caused by being jilted at the alter or failing a paternity test while trying to cement the parentage of a
Sicario (2015) – Review
In the many years since the War On Terror started many have forgotten that before the US of A targeted terror in it’s sights there
The Lighthouse (2019) – Review
The long awaited second movie from Robert Eggers – the man who gave us 2015’s impressive skin crawler The Witch – The Lighthouse is yet
Glass (2019) – Review
M. Night Shyamalan’s capper to the stealth trilogy – unofficially starting with Unbreakable in 2000 and stunning everyone who didn’t even realise it existed until
The Witch
Right from the get go, lets get things out into the open. If you are one of those people who think true horror should be
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