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
Tag: 2010s
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
Murder On The Orient Express (2017) – Review
Kenneth Branagh was once hailed as the successor to Laurence Olivier as the greatest, Shakespearean actor of his generation, but as dear old Kenny persued
Blair Witch (2016) – Review
Probably the biggest surprise that came with Adam Wingard’s 2016’s stealth, Blair Witch sequel is that it existed at all. Filmed in secret under a
Lake Placid 3 (2010) – Review
Do you know, I don’t think I’m ever going to understand the SyFy Channel’s obsession with churning out endless, cheap, killer animal movies for as
Nemesis 5: The New Model (2017) – Review
After twenty years of laying dormant, the long forgotten Nemesis suddenly came back on-line and lurched into life. Quite why it decided to do so
Attack The Block (2011) – Review
Cinematic alien invasions have taken all sorts of shapes and sizes over the decades – be it the gargantuan saucers from Independence Day hovering over
Free Fire (2016) – Review
I really have a sizable soft spot for movies that dispense with complicated plots and multiple destinations in favour of focusing entirely on incident. It’s
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