Earning gold or silver are obviously tremendous achievements, but sometimes just making the podium is impressive enough. Take the Alien franchise for example; nailing first
Tag: 2024
I Saw The TV Glow (2024) – Review
Part of the reason I love horror so much is that it’s just so goddamn pliable. If you want to watch a slow burning, intelligent
Trap (2024) – Review
From a purely creative standpoint, 2024 has been something of a productive year for the Shyamalan clan. Earlier in the year, M. Night’s younger daughter,
Borderlands (2024) – Review
For a minute there, I truly believed that the video game adaptation had finally broken through and come of age thanks to the likes of
The Last Breath (2024) – Review
Here’s a shark related fact that feels nicely apt: sharks are constantly losing teeth on the fly, so they are constantly regrowing an endless supply
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) – Review
I think it’s a pretty fair to say that the moment Marvel Studios started fucking around with the multiverse, their product of colourful superhero stories
Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey II (2024) – Review
I guess as someone who grew up in the 80s, I should be utterly unfazed by thr arrival of any unnecessary horror sequels, but even
Twisters (2024) – Review
Ok, before we take this movie for a spin, can I take a quick poll? Was there actually a call for a legacy sequel to
Longlegs (2024) – Review
It happens approximately around once a year. You’ve all seen it, that quote on the year’s most anticipated horror film that usually reads something like
MaXXXine (2024) – Review
In 2022, Ti West and Mia Goth collaborated to give us X, a movie that attempted to change the attitude to sex that many, previous,
In A Violent Nature (2024) – Review
Much like the hulking, masked marauders that lurk within, the 80s slasher genre was something of a simplistic engine of destruction that moved inexorably toward
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) – Review
Hey, listen – if the Bad Boys and Maverick from Top Gun can suddenly explode back onto the screens in explosive adventures that manage to
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) – Review
When John Krasinski’s soft-soft-LOUD dystopian horror/thriller first landed in cinemas, audiences found there was plenty to shout about at this tale of a family struggling
Something In The Water (2024) – Review
There’s no shame in wanting your movie to emulate other movies, especially when films in question are pretty bloody brilliant; but the latest shark attack
The Exorcism (2024) – Review
When most successful actors hit their middle-age these days, they seem to take the Liam Neeson approach to acting and suddenly become a grizzled action
Trigger Warning (2024) – Review
I don’t want to go as far as to suggest that I’m suffering from negative reinforcement, but I’m starting to treat the news of any
Inside Out 2 (2024) – Review
I don’t have to probe the inner most reaches of my brain to know that I’ve adled this question before – but was anyone else
Arcadian (2024) – Review
In his continuing evolution from indie maverick, to action oddball, to DTV maniac and back to indie Maverick again, Nicolas Cage seems to be on
The Watchers (2024) – Review
Personally speaking, I’ve never been one to cry nepotism when it comes to the children of famous filmmakers taking flight on their own. If I
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (2024) – Review
One of the biggest surprises of 2020 – aside from that whole lockdown thing, of course – was the Bad Boys franchise suddenly lurching back
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