We hadn’t even gotten halfway through Arnold Schwarzenegger’s debut on streaming services before I was convinced that its throwback charms were going to start grinding
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FUBAR – Season 1, Episode 3: Honeyplot (2023) -Review
As we round the tracks and head into FUBAR’s third episode, the show’s layout and tone are now as clear to see as a brown
FUBAR – Season 1, Episode 1: Take Your Daughter To Work Day (2023) – Review
Since the moment he emerged from the womb (possibly while already chomping on a vast stogie), Arnold Schwarzenegger has strived to conquer everything he sets
Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 7: You’re Not A King, You’re Just A Stupid Animal (2023) – Review
Holy shit, where did this come from?!Over the last couple of episodes, I’ve kind of been giving Skull Island a hard time, complaining incessantly that
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) – Review
Since the ascension of the Mission: Impossibe series made the switch from Tom Cruise Vanity Project to legitimate contender for action franchise alpha (around about
Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 6: Terms Of Endearment (2023) – Review
I’ve spent the last couple of reviews basically grumbling about the lack of Kong in this Kong related series, but in a much needed effort
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) – Review
Unless, due to some sort of Mandela effect, my memory is as off centre as a defective rifle scope, the latter part of the 1990s
Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) – Review
When you consider that one of my many, major peeves about Deep Blue Sea 2 – the massively belated, low budget follow up to Renny
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023) – Review
How much did we really need another Indiana Jones movie? After Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull screwed up Last Crusade’s note perfect ending with CGI
Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 1: Maritime Pilot (2023) – Review
Conventional wisdom suggests that there are certain rules to establishing and sustaining a cinematic universe. If we were to read from the individual playbooks of
The Fifth Element (1997) – Review
The nineties were a weird, vibrant time for blockbusters as CGI came of age and the only thing that could stop you from realising your
Dog Soldiers (2002) – Review
You know, nothing gets my heart pumping more than a good, full blooded, horror debut and in 2002 we got an utter banger in the
Extraction 2 (2023) – Review
In many ways, Sam Hargrave’s knuckle breaking firecracker of an action flick was the perfect example of the virtues of streaming. Standing out amid a
The Flash (2023) – Review
It seems that nowadays, recent superhero movies are no longer forged by an exploding planet, dead parents or a burst of lighting, but instead are
Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996) – Review
If nothing else, the existence of Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (aka. Nemesis 3: Prey Harder), proves that Albert Pyun had a sense of tenaciousness that
The Crow: Salvation (2000) – Review
It was horribly ironic that The Crow franchise should have fallen under the ownership of Dimension – Miramax’s more genre focused arm – as it,
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023) – Review
Thanks to the colourful, Spielbergian tone of the 2018 Bumblebee movie, the gargantuan Transformers franchise had a chance to fittingly change it’s form (most likely
Convoy (1978) – Review
If someone grabbed me while I was walking down the street and suddenly demanded to know the best and easiest way to describe Convoy, Sam
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023) – Review
When Into the Spider-Verse landed in cinemas, obviously while pulling a classic Spidey, superhero landing pose when he did so, few could have imagined the
Hypnotic (2023) – Review
Remember 90’s Robert Rodriguez? The guy who banged out unfeasibly entertaining genre fare on his own terms thanks to his indefatigable indie spirit and the
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