When the correct filmmaker attaches themselves to an existing franchise, the fireworks that usually result tend to hit with the force of a Predator’s exploding
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Gremlins: The Wild Batch – Season 2, Episode 6: Never Get Out Of The Truck (2025) – Review
While daylight, mass electrocution and Lynn Peltzer have often proved to be the biggest causes of downfall the Gremlins seem to possess, thanks to a
Urotsukidōji II: Legend Of The Demon Womb (1991) – Review
Whether you like it or not, it’s time to skinny dip once again into the gnarlier end of the Anime pool where all sorts of
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 10: If This Be My Destiny… (2025) – Review
If you’d asked me what my predictions were for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man a few months ago it probably would have been a lot different
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 9: Hero Or Menace (2025) – Review
With only two episodes to go, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has managed to establish itself as possibly one of the best written animated versions of
Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence (2004) – Review
The Anime of Ghost In The Shell was always going to be a tough act to follow, but when it comes to the near-impenetrable world
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 8: Tangled Web (2025) – Review
It has to be said, you really know when a show has managed to nail it when the slower, more transitional episodes manage to engage
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 7: Scorpion Rising (2025) – Review
It seems that my theory concerning the peaks and troughs of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s plot is pretty much bang on the money and that
Steamboy (2004) – Review
Back in 1988, anime director Katsuhiro Otomo established himself as one of the genre’s primary visualists thanks to the herculean accomplishment that was Akira, a
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 6: Duel With The Devil (2025) – Review
Now that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is firing on all cylinders, I guess it’s not going to hurt to start dropping in some superhero cameos
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 5: The Unicorn Unleashed (2025) – Review
You have no idea how relieved I am that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man managed to finally make good on the first three episodes being nothing
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 4: Hitting The Big Time (2025) – Review
I’ve been saying for three episodes now that I’ve been waiting with baited breath for all the accumulated story and characters to come together and
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 3: Secret Identity Crisis (2025) – Review
After the first two episodes gave us not one, but two cliffhangers involving Norman Osborn benevolently ebowing his way into Peter Parker’s life, it’s about
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget (2023) – Review
Sometimes a concept so hideous and disturbing enters your brain and refuses to leave no matter how much you want to dismiss it and even
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man – Season 1, Episode 2: The Parker Luck (2025) – Review
There’s a certain sense that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is playing the long game when it comes to offering up a new take on the
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season 1, Episode 1: Amazing Fantasy (2025) – Review
Reinvention in the world of superheroes is vital – after all, how many times can you tell the exact same origin story over and over
Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) – Review
You have to give the plasticine slingers and Aardman Animation all the credit in tbe world. I mean, when you consider that they already had
Creature Commandos – Season 1, Episode 7: A Very Funny Monster (2025) – Review
While Creature Commandos might not technically have been the tantalisingly accurate first glimpse of the new DCU some where hoping for, it’s still been a
Creature Commandos – Season 1, Episode 6: Priyatel Skelet (2025) – Review
Aside from that overfamilar first episode and the last instalment that put bumbling, psychotic, self-unaware Eric Frankenstien in the flashback booth, Creature Commandos has been
Golgo 13: The Professional (1983) – Review
While the natural state of an animated movie from Japan is to use it’s near limitless medium to concoct wild, fantasy worlds, or grim dystopian
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