It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
Tag: 2019
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Maybe it’s my advancing years, but a sub-genre I’ve really found myself gravitating toward is the oddly gentle horror/comedy. Completely unsure of what that means?
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) – Review
Back in 2017, the orginal 47 Meters Down helpfully warned us of the dangers of cage diving when Matthew Modine is running the show and
Color Out Of Space (2019) – Review
I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site about the difficulty hollywood has had in trying to visualise the unearthly works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (H.P. to
Parasite (2019) – Review
The dictionary describes the word “parasite” as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving
The Lighthouse (2019) – Review
The long awaited second movie from Robert Eggers – the man who gave us 2015’s impressive skin crawler The Witch – The Lighthouse is yet
Glass (2019) – Review
M. Night Shyamalan’s capper to the stealth trilogy – unofficially starting with Unbreakable in 2000 and stunning everyone who didn’t even realise it existed until
1917 (2019) – Review
The war film has been getting some esoteric entries over the past couple of years what with Christopher Nolan’s time twisting Dunkirk doing the rounds
Jojo Rabbit (2019) – Review
The final days of World War II seem like an odd stomping ground for broad humour, I mean even Life Is Beautiful was crammed with
The Gentlemen (2019) – Review
Returning to his rhyming-slang roots for the first time since 2008’s Rocknrolla, Guy Richie leaves the heftily budgeted worlds of a blue CGI Will Smith
Cats (2019) – Review
Director Tom Hooper has a lot to answer for…The man who gave us The Danish Girl, The King’s Speech and the 2012 version of Les
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019) – Review
Despite Gareth Edwards’ gritty, more realistic take on Toho’s Tokyo flattening superstar, some felt that the 2014 Godzilla maybe wasn’t all it could have been.
Angel Has Fallen (2019) – Review
Believe it or not – whether you WANTED it or not – Gerard Butler’s supernaturally death resistant secret service agent, and full-time John McClane rip
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (2019) – Review
So as Quentin Tarantino rumbles toward his inevitable, self imposed retirement, his ninth and penultimate movie touches down in cinemas with a hefty running time
Black Christmas (2019) – Review
Blumhouse has made quite the name for themselves as a studio that has one eye firmly on the major issues of the times. With such
It: Chapter 2 (2019) – Review
If cinema history has taught us anything over the years, it’s that horror is usually best when it’s high concept and low budget. It’s a
Ad Astra (2019) – Review
Every couple of years the science fiction movie manages to launch a serious and thought provoking entry that attempts to snare a blockbuster crowd while
Doctor Sleep (2019) – Review
I personally hate it when I have to introduce two sets of friends who don’t get on. It’s awkward, it’s ugly and being the one
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019) – Review
2019 seems to be the year that epic sagas reach the end of the road. Marvel spectacularly rounded up 11 years of storytelling with their
6 Underground (2019) – Review
Netflix has come a long way when it comes to it’s film purchases… after all the leap from barely decent action B-movies to barely decent
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