Hollywood has a long history of directors reworking their earlier works with more money and more experience in order to realise their cult debuts. Sam
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The Equalizer 2
There was something perversely fascinating about watching a man of Denzel Washington’s infinite talents stab, punch, batter and shoot his way through The Equalizer, Antoine
Fast X
When looking up the definition of “momentum”, the description given is something along the lines of – “strength or force gained by motion or by
The Warriors
Here’s a message for all you boppers out there… Walter Hill was a filmmaker that enjoyed toying with stories that concerned themselves with unabashed alpha
Sisu
Ever since Quentin Tarantino made the Second World War “fun” again with Inglorious Basterds, I’ve been waiting for someone to come along to deliver a
Nemesis 2: Nebula
Never let it be said that Albert Pyun – undisputed lord and master of the dusty bottom shelf at all 90’s video rental stores –
The Crow: City Of Angels
Sequelizing the goth-tastic, 1994, comic book movie The Crow was never going to an easy task, especially since the movie achieved mythic status after the
Crank
Aside from the early, mockney gangster stuff he did with Guy Ritchie and the first Transporter, does anyone here actually remember much of Jason Statham’s
The Equalizer
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
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
This information may horrify many of you who feel that foreign film absolutely have to watched in their native language while your eyes snap from
Gladiator
At one point in Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s epic exhuming and re-animating of the entire sword and sandal genre, Russell Crowe’s stoic general, Maximus Decimus Meridius,
Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone
In the wake of George Lucas’ world dominating, sci-fi/fantasy, Star Wars, the race was on to concoct as many movies as possible that copied that
Return Of The Street Fighter
With 1974’s The Street Fighter we were introduced to one Terry Tsurugi (or Sugury, depending on which version you watch), an anti-hero that leaned so
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Anyone who has witnessed the glacial cool that Rutger Hauer bestowed to either of the genuinely terrifying villains of Blade Runner or The Hitcher might
The Rundown (aka. Welcome To The Jungle)
As we gaze upon the blockbuster landscape of the present, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson not only stands as the most successful pro wrestler turned actor
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Cinematic super spies seem to be ten-a-penny these days, but with James Bond currently taking a breather before being recast and Ethan Hunt winding up
The Street Fighter
The anti-hero is a magnificently cinematic concept that allows us to follow the exploits of people who freely go out and do the types of
Split Second
In many ways, low budget sci-fi in the early 90’s wasn’t that much different from low budget horror in the early 80’s insofar that that
Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning
Ever since filmmakers started trying to sequalize Roland Emmerich’s 90’s original, the Universal Soldier franchise has been rejecting follow up after follow up like a
Shogun Assassin
For those of you who know, there’s quite a potent argument against me reviewing Shogun Assassin considering I’ve already review the entirety of the Lone
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