Tag: 2014

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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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

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Last Shift (2014) – Review

If there ever was a problem with the bygone world of direct to DVD horror flicks and the current universe of streaming, it’s that the

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The Equalizer (2014) – Review

Of all the actors to tackle their advancing years by going the Liam Neeson/Taken route and portraying a dude who can make mincemeat of men

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The Raid 2 (2014) – Review

In 2011, Gareth Evans hauled off and smashed us in the face with The Raid, a stupendously brutal, high-energy action masterpiece that quickly crawled it’s

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Pompeii (2014) – Review

I guess we can’t blame Paul W.S. Anderson for wanting to multitask; after all this is a man who once thought it was a good

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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (2014) – Review

They say that the most important part of any adventure is actually the journey and not the destination, but then if I’m being honest, I

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) – Review

Jack Ryan is something of an anomaly in the realms of cinematic returning characters due to the fact that Hollywood seems to be utterly incapable

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Need For Speed (2014) – Review

Regardless of the final outcome, movies based of video game make a certain amount of sense. In most cases you have an already iconic character

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[REC]⁴: Apocalypse (2014) – Review

Whether concerning a ship or a movie franchise, course correction is terribly important – head too far in the wrong direction and you’ll end up

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The Purge: Anarchy (2014) – Review

The common consensus concerning the orginal Purge, Blumhouse’s typically political 2013 slasher/thriller, is that it wasted it’s thought provoking premise by restricting it to have

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Lucy (2014) – Review

Back in 2014, Scarlett Johanssen seemed to be on somewhat of a hot streak thanks to her stunning, near wordless performance in the wonderfully divisive

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The Expendables 3 (2014) – Review

As the gristly gaggle of action stars once again girded their aging loins (ew) and threw themselves into the breach of a third Expendables movie,

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Fury (2014) – Review

David Ayer is a filmmaker that doesn’t deal in half measures. Responsible for either writing or directing a string of absurdly hard edged street thrillers,

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – Review

I for one never had that much an issue with Michael Bay’s whirring, vorping, clanking and exploding face lift for 2007’s Transformers – after all,

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Annabelle (2014) – Review

After James Wan’s The Conjuring scared up a treat at the box office, it was a sure bet that it would get a follow up,

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) – Review

The rebirth of the Planet Of The Apes franchise seemingly came from nowhere, exploding from out of the foliage, teeth bared in a defiant screech

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Interstellar (2014) – Review

Christopher Nolan over the course of his career has taken great measures to bring complex to the multiplex. Gleefully screwing with way cinema handles such

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Godzilla (2014) – Review

We’ve been here before…The last time Hollywood tried to tackle Japan’s biggest export we were left standing in the unfortunate wreckage of Roland Emmerich’s 1998

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Robocop (2014) – Review

Sometimes when you are reviewing movies you get caught at a loss when it comes to something new to say, which coincidentally is the exact

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