After his late-in-the-day transition into a grizzled action hero, it seemed like Liam Neeson’s more weightier roles seemed behind him – especially when you considers
Tag: 2010s
A Horrible Way To Die (2010) – Review
Long before he oversaw two towering monsters beating the gargantuan shit out of each other on a global stage in the Godzilla/Kong movies, Adam Wingard
Let Me In (2010) – Review
Standard remakes – you know, modern takes on older, classic films – are tricky enough to get right as it is without accidently making sure
Maniac (2012) – Review
During an interview held sometime after the release of the 1998, meta sci-fi flick, The Faculty, director Robert Rodriguez stated that he’d love to cast
The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) – Review
Way back, in the atmospheric, serial killer enshrouding, mists of time (aka. 2008), The Strangers was released in an attempt to deliver a stripped back,
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011) – Review
After Guy Richie, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law delivered their predictably bombastic take on Athur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth, the notion of a sequel
Sinister 2 (2015) – Review
The horror genre is always on the lookout for its next, marketable mascot; however, the choice to try and make a franchise out of Scott
Red 2 (2013) – Review
Some films ingrain themselves on your psyche with the intensity of a laser aimed at a secret agent’s crotch and creates an indelible core memory
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) – Review
Apparently, one of the toughest kind of movies to sequelize are ones specifically directed by Matthew Vaughn that are based from comics penned by Scottish
Death Wish (2018) – Review
Action movies are literally stuffed with main characters taking the law into their own hands and yet most of the time, when a cop has
Sinister (2012) – Review
After a brief sojourn into sci-fi with the drippy remake of The Day The Earth Stool Still, director Scott Derrickson returned to the world of
Red (2010) – Review
Proving that not every adaptation of a DC comic has to be dripping with spandex and capes; 2010 saw Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer’s limited
Carrie (2013) – Review
The undisputed prom queen of the “good for her” subgenre of horror will always be be the bloodstained image of Stephen King’s Carrie White –
Kick-Ass (2010) – Review
The deconstruction of the superhero genre is hardly a new thing as comics have been taking it apart and putting it back together again as
The Lodge (2019) – Review
Never mind heartwarming vistas of families building snowmen and kids sledding down marshmallow white drifts; anyone who knows anything, knows that snow is fucking scary.John
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014) – Review
Back in 2005, Robert Rodriguez managed to do the impossible and bottle the impossibly gritty lightning of Frank Miller’s cult, hyper-noir comic, Sin City. He
Machete Kills (2013) – Review
Even after making a full length movie out of his fake, Mexploitation trailer, Machete, it seemed that Robert Rodriguez still hadn’t gotten Grindhouse out of
Lake Placid: Legacy (2018) – Review
It’s a well known fact that crocodiles have a very long life span, but surely this is taking the piss. After first breaching the surface
V/H/S: Viral (2014) – Review
Whether you regard the V/H/S franchise as a vital entry in the realms of independent horror, or merely a disposable, failed cinematic experiment, you can’t
300: Rise Of An Empire (2014) – Review
After watching 300, Zach Snyder’s hugely stylized adaptation of Frank Miller’s already hugely stylized graphic novel, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ludicrously muscular
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