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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) – Review

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The only thing that was surprising about insanely influential screenwriter Shane Black making the long overdue jump to directing was that it took so bloody

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) – Review

November 27, 2022 greigzilla

Emerging from the seemingly never ending critical chaos after the release of The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson recovered with style by turning around and casually

A History Of Violence (2005) – Review

November 19, 2022 greigzilla

It may be a slightly immature take, but I’ve always gravitated more towards David Cronenberg’s earlier, genre work than his later, more… well, not conventional

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) – Review

September 26, 2022 greigzilla

Over four collaborations that had started in 1968 with Coogan’s Bluff and ended in 1971 with the seminal Dirty Harry, the team of Don Siegel

Pulp Fiction (1994) – Review

August 24, 2022 greigzilla

What would you consider to be the ultimate Quentin Tarantino movie – not necessarily the best, but the one movie from the auteur’s filmography that

Angel Heart (1987) – Review

July 6, 2022 greigzilla

Film noir has had some radical variations over the years; from Ridley Scott’s moody, future shock, extravaganza, Blade Runner, to Rian Johnson’s Raymond Chandler inspired

A Better Tomorrow II (1987) – Review

June 27, 2022 greigzilla

Those who have seen the original A Better Tomorrow would surely concur that that although it contained many of John Woo’s signature themes, it hadn’t

A Better Tomorrow (1986) – Review

June 14, 2022 greigzilla

These days, the many themes and visual tricks of action maestro John Woo are incredibly well known as his frenetic, slow motion gunplay, religious iconography

Crimson Rivers II: Angels Of The Apocalypse (2004) – Review

May 19, 2022 greigzilla

In 2000, Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel teamed up with La Haine director Mathieu Kassovitz to deliver The Crimson Rivers, a fidgety psycho thriller that

The Crimson Rivers (2000) – Review

May 11, 2022 greigzilla

After Thomas Harris’ Silence Of The Lambs erupted onto the scene and changed the face of serial killer thrillers forever (sorry, Manhunter), Hollywood has been

A Simple Plan (1998) – Review

May 4, 2022 greigzilla

After the cartoonish sadism of his Evil Dead trilogy and the deranged superheroics of Darkman, it looked like Sam Raimi was starting to mature after

Jackie Brown (1997) – Review

March 9, 2022 greigzilla

To paraphrase Calvin Candie from Django Unchained, with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino had our curiosity, but with the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994, he

Death On The Nile (2022) – Review

February 15, 2022 greigzilla

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

Nightmare Alley (2021) – Review

January 31, 2022 greigzilla

There’s always a slight sense of trepidation whenever a director chiefly linked with genre work gets a sniff of respectability and moves away from the

Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Review

January 16, 2022 greigzilla

While, for a moment there, it seemed that Quentin Tarantino’s incendiary debut was destined to be forever claimed by the legions of film school students

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976) – Review

November 10, 2021 greigzilla

An inspired fusion of Rio Bravo and Night Of The The Living Dead made for as little money as possible, Assault On Precinct 13 is

Army Of Thieves (2021) – Review

November 3, 2021 greigzilla

Inbetween the slow motion skull splats, unexplained robots and suggested alien influences of Zack Snyder’s entertaining but overstuffed Netflix opus Army Of The Dead, one

The Many Saints Of Newark (2021) – Review

October 4, 2021 greigzilla

So, before we get started, I guess it’s time to address the scowling, Italian-American elephant in the room – to date I have never seen

Shaft (2000) – Review

September 29, 2021 greigzilla

Back in 1971, Shaft was one of leading lights of Blaxploitation cinema, but you kinda feel that the continuing adventures of the black private dick

Copshop (2021) – Review

September 11, 2021 greigzilla

During his career, Joe Carnham has cornered the market in gritty, sarcastic throwbacks that alternate between harrowing drama (Narc, The Grey) and darkly humorous romps

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