“I have to say, I wasnt expecting to be invited back.” Confesses a slightly more humbled version of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the fighter pilot blessed/cursed
Tag: 2020s
Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) – Review
While the landscape has certainly changed since Tremors first surfaced back in 1990, the jocular killer worm franchise has managed to get a lot of
Firestarter (2022) – Review
To make your remake be worthy of the original, meaningful or even just worth an audience’s time, you need a spark to light the fires
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) – Review
Every now and then a movie comes along that’s utterly unlike anything you’ve seen before, is both mind blowingly original and devastatingly intimate and on
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022) – Review
Regardless of your person feelings for Hollywood’s greatest living maverick, everyone has a favorite Nicolas Cage performance be it Oscar’s worthy, an apocalyptic screech-fest or
The Lost City (2022) – Review
If there’s one genre I used to despise during my youth, it was the kind of goofy rom-com that tended to be so horrifically predictable,
The Northman (2022) – Review
In merely two films, director Robert Eggers has positioned himself to being the go-to guy for traumatizing yet rich experiences in a period setting. 2015’s
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Romcoms are a something of a trial for me, so when something comes along to subvert (or even pervert) the usual tropes and cliches I
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) – Review
After the release of Sonic The Hedgehog back in 2019, something almost happened on this website that has never happened before. No, we didn’t actually
Morbius (2022) – Review
Those confused by the continuing random randomness of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man business plan aren’t likely to get a clearer view after a viewing of Morbius,
Ambulance (2022) – Review
Anyone else get the feeling that Michael Bay was maybe getting past his prime?I realise it’s a weird question to ask when the majority of
Umma (2022) – Review
If I were to describe to you a movie where Sandra Oh’s over protective parenting and complicated relationship with her own mother leads to supernatural
X (2022) – Review
Ti West deserves to be a household name, God dammit.Flirting round the mainstream with patient, brooding horrors like House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers,
Turning Red (2022) – Review
Of late, you really have to feel for the alchemists of animation of who toil and labour under the roof of Pixar in order to
The Adam Project (2022) – Review
Blockbuster movies made for Netflix still haven’t quite managed to crack the level of quality you’d expect considering the sheer amount of cash the streaming
The Batman (2022) – Review
Weeks before I was due to delve into this latest jaunt through the seedy underbelly of Gotham City, I had to admit, I wasn’t exactly
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) – Review
Even during this impossibly fertile period of horror legacy sequels in which Michael Myers, Ghostface, Chucky and Candyman all got polished, new adventures, never did
Death On The Nile (2022) – Review
When is being old fashioned considered old hat? Take Kenneth Branagh’s previous take on Agatha Christie’s legendary Belgian detective, Murder On The Orient Express, that
Uncharted (2022) – Review
Aw damn, we were getting so close…Over the last couple of years, the quality of video game adaptations was looking like it was finally getting
Moonfall (2022) – Review
When news of the latest kaboom-fest from Roland Emmerich was due to land, I genuinely had mixed emotions. Emmerich had been semi-regularly bombarding our multiplexes
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