Phantasm: Ravager (2016) – Review

After the confusing denouement of 1998’s Phantasm: Oblivion, it seemed that Don Coscerelli’s far out horror odessy had finally been laid to rest with no

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Split (2016) – Review

Emerging from the impressive tailspin that pretty much left his name in tatters, that cheeky little Spielberg/Hitchcockian hybrid known as M. Night “what a twist!”

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

Ghostbusters (2016) – Review

The “female reboot” is unfortunately something that still stirs up a lot of controversy despite it not really being that big a deal. For some

London Has Fallen (2016) – Review

The dumb action movie has to be smarter than it looks if it has a chance at cinematic immortality. Speed, The Rock, Con Air and

Deepwater Horizon (2016) – Review

Whether he would consider it a compliment or not (it actually is) when director Peter Berg turns his eye to action he truly is the

Colossal (2016) – Review

As big a Kaiji fan as I am, I have to admit, it’s somewhat of a relief that someone’s made a movie that actually done

Assassin’s Creed (2016) – Review

Throwing their not inconsiderable weight into the video game adaptation ring, the director and two leads from 2015’s Macbeth take a crack at what is

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) – Review

Full disclosure, I didn’t actually like the first Independence Day when it was first released (oh, stop jeering in the back), because back in those

The Shallows (2016) – Review

After a somewhat lousy summer at the cinema during 2016, it turned out there was nothing better for blowing away the cinematic cobwebs than a

Warcraft (2016) – Review

Man, I really wanted to like this one. Not because I’m big on the video game or anything but because I was really hoping that

Don’t Breathe (2016) – Review

In what’s turning out to be quite a kick ass year for modern horror, this reunion of the Evil Dead remake’s main players (heavily abused

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) – Review

Well… The critics have REALLY been up and down on comic book movies this year, haven’t they?Being next out of the gate after the frankly

Shin Godzilla (2016) – Review

Godzilla, the big, radioactive lizard with serious mood issues, has been stomping cities flat for over 60 years now, with over 30 titles to his

Doctor Strange (2016) – Review

By 2016 Marvel Studios had successfully cast it’s spell over the world like a megalomaniac hypnotist and was hitting greater heights than ever before. Their

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Review

Star Wars spinoffs are a risky thing. For every TV show that hits a Wamp Rat dead centre we get servings of excruciating awfulness like

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) – Review

“Versus” stories are no new thing for comic books. Christ, it seems everytime you get two of these super-buggers in a room they are compelled

Captain America: Civil War (2016) – Review

Batten down the hatches, tighten those Web-shooters and charge up that arc reactor, because with a resounding “ding” Marvel’s thirteenth entry in it’s ever expanding

Deadpool (2016) – Review

With a sigh of relief arguably louder than the one I gave The Force Awakens, it gives me great pleasure to report that The Merc

Suicide Squad (2016) – Review

Jesus, I really wanted to like this one… and on paper it seemed like a satisfying slice of anarchic fun. DC’s third movie in their

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