Tag: Fantasy

Aquaman (2019) – Review

Sea-Thor, Sea-Thor, on the sea floor?After one of the most disappointing payoffs in cinema history scuppered all that good will provided by Wonder Woman, you

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Onward (2020) – Review

Let us regard Pixar for a minute and the sheer scale and quality of their product since they reinvented the animation wheel with Toy Story

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Flash Gordon (1980) – Review

Kicking off with quite possibly the single greatest theme song in cinema history (fight me!) we are hurled kicking and screaming into the swirly, garish

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The Last Witch Hunter (2015) – Review

Over the last couple of decades, through a sheer force of will that belays his mortal existence, Vin Diesel seems to be collecting franchises the

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Cats (2019) – Review

Director Tom Hooper has a lot to answer for…The man who gave us The Danish Girl, The King’s Speech and the 2012 version of Les

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Review

Thor’s series of solo movies have always been seen as Marvel’s fifth wheel so to speak. His sweet – but slight – origin movie and

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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019) – Review

2019 seems to be the year that epic sagas reach the end of the road. Marvel spectacularly rounded up 11 years of storytelling with their

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Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) – Review

The “first” Jumanji (or would that technically be second?) was somewhat of a very welcome surprise. Taking the formula of the 90’s orginal and bringing

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Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) – Review

I, like most people, inwardly and outwardly groaned at the prospect of a Jumanji remake. I mean, I’ve never been the type to turn my

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Nightbreed (1990) – Review

Released in 1990 as horror author slash director Clive Barker’s follow up to his superlative Hellraiser, Nightbreed was hyped up on set as the Star

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Conan The Barbarian (1982) – Review

Join me now as I steer you through the days of high adventure and teach you what is best in life as we journey through

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The Dark Crystal (1982) – Review

Back in 1982, gangly visionary genius – and full time felt frog proctologist – Jim Henson unleashed a vision onto the silver screen the likes

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Willow (1988) – Review

Consider the fate of Willow, the fantasy collaboration between George Lucas and Ron Howard. Essentially the high concept fusing of Star Wars and Tolken-esque, Lord

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Army Of Darkness (1993) – Review

I truly believe in my heart of hearts that Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy is one of the greatest gifts cinema has ever given us.

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Gamera 3: The Revenge Of Iris (1999) – Review

For the final part of his lauded Gamera trilogy, director Shusuke Kaneko went for something a little different from the usual plotline of an evil

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Gamera: Super Monster (1980) – Review

God dammit, Daiei, just what the hell is wrong with you?Imagine me saying this out loud as one long exhausted sigh while pinching the bridge

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Gamera Vs. Zigra (1971) – Review

An mysterious alien craft pulls a Compton drive-by on a human research base on the surface of the moon (because we have those now), and

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Gamera Vs. Jiger (1970) – Review

The final, palatable Gamera movie of the original 60’s-70’s run (brace yourself as there’s two more to go) sees the child befriending mega turtle probably

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Gamera Vs. Guiron (1969) – Review

The Gamera series, despite it’s many flaws, has always had the weirdest designs for it antagonists. Every single one is a truly bizarre, surrealistic nightmare

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Gamera The Brave (2005) – Review

By the time 2006 rolled around, the rights to everybody’s favourite flying fire turtle has switched hands and plans were put in place to bash

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