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
Tag: 2010s
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
Machete (2010) – Review
You be honest with you, by the time Robert Rodriguez released Machete on the world, I was pretty much over the whole fake Grindhouse craze
V/H/S/2 (2013) – Review
If the first V/H/S taught us anything is that an anthology movie is chiefly going to be judged on it’s best and worst segments with
Lake Placid Vs. Anaconda (2015) – Review
While a healthy influx of brains isn’t really something you’d credit the people at the SyFy channel with at the best of times, you really
V/H/S (2012) – Review
Not to go all Forrest Gump on you, but anthology movies are kind of like a box of chocolates, insofar that you never know what
Source Code (2011) – Review
There’s the general consensus that Chesney Hawkes loving director, Duncan Jones, has been on a downward spiral since his feature debut, Moon, obliterated us in
Monsters (2010) – Review
Usually when filmmakers set out to make a giant monster movie, they have to figure out how to get that delicate balance between the humans
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012) – Review
When it comes to the breeding habits of actual crocodiles, females are known to nest as often as every year, or every couple of years,
I, Frankenstein (2014) – Review
Remember when you first saw Blade? God, that was a fucking cool experience, wasn’t it? Remember how you thrilled when Stephen Norrington not only tweaked
Turbo Kid (2015) – Review
When projected through a rose tinted lens, eighties pop culture was a glorious thing and is still revered to this day. Everything from the recent
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