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
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Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Review
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
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
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
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
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
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
Magnum Force (1973) – Review
Right up to the moment the titular hero turned his maniacal nemesis into the equivalent of a human polo mint with a slug from his
Dirty Harry (1971) – Review
The image of Clint Eastwood chewing on a cigar, wrapped in a poncho and squinting at his enemies from underneath a dusty cowboy hat is
Boyz N The Hood (1991) – Review
In these divisive times in which we live it’s incredibly distressing that John Singleton’s 1991 classic Boyz N The Hood is still as fiercely relevant
BlacKkKlansman (2018) – Review
First up, let me level with you all…This is the first Spike Lee movie I ever got round to seeing. I know, I know! Legitimately
The Gentlemen (2019) – Review
Returning to his rhyming-slang roots for the first time since 2008’s Rocknrolla, Guy Richie leaves the heftily budgeted worlds of a blue CGI Will Smith
Knives Out (2019) – Review
After Rian Johnson got decidedly polar opposite reactions for his crack at the Skywalker Saga with The Last Jedi (a heap of internet trolling vs.
Yardie (2018) – Review
Idris Elba has pretty much done it all. After conquering television as the charismatic Stringer Bell on HBO’s The Wire he jumped over to Film
Baby Driver (2017) – Review
In this writers humble opinion, Edgar Wright has never made a bad movie (I don’t count his debut, A Fistful Of Fingers mainly because I
The Snowman (2017) – Review
No. Not the Raymond Briggs one, although you might wanna watch that instead… You see, despite seeing this movie a little while ago, I’m still
Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2017) – Review
S. Craig Zahler previous film, the deliciously brutal western Bone Tomahawk was a movie experience of two halves. The first was a intelligent retread of
Bad Times At The El Royale (2018) – Review
Tricksy, labyrinthine plots are somewhat a double edged sword. Go too simple and the audience pulls way out in front, able to second guess every
The Girl In The Spider’s Web (2018) – Review
The first attempt at the fourth book containing the fourth appearance of a character in her fifth film being played by a third actress is
Dragged Across Concrete (2018) – Review
As his previous duo of features quite eloquently proved, an S. Craig Zahler movie is nothing to fuck around with. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In
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