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
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The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979) – Review
As something of a forgotten staple of the disaster film, the Airport franchise went out of its way for a decade to disprove the fact
The Karate Kid (1984) – Review
It had to happen sooner or later…There comes a time when every diligent movie blogger finds when they’ve no choice but to have to sit
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
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) – Review
The exact second Drew Barrymore picked up that ringing phone in Scream, the American slasher movie was reborn in a cavalcade of meta references, iconic
Chicken Run (2000) – Review
By the time 2000 rolled along, Aardman Animations were already providing iconic magic with skillfully manipulated plasticine thanks to the Oscar winning efforts of Wallace
The Wild Geese (1978) – Review
As the seventies rolled on, one sub-genre of the war movie that seemed to be getting ever more dated was the man-on-a-mission movie that often
Ghost In The Shell (1995) – Review
While Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner seemingly delivered the first and last word in rainy, dystopian futures where everyone is having an existential crisis about their
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) – Review
Even a hitman can hit the target but spectacularly miss the point, I guess.Basically, in 2011, Jason Statham appeared in The Mechanic, a typically “Stathed
Lensman (1984) – Review
Chances are, if you’re from an older generation, you’ve probably been affected (or infected as the case may be) by Anime long before you ever
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012) – Review
And so the inexorable string of Wrong Turn sequels rolled ever on. In 2012, the tally of installments bizarrely rose to five when some bright
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) – Review
Back in 1985 the Anime world introduced us to the derranged gumbo of influences that made up the utterly bonkers concept behind Vampire Hunter D.
Wolf Man (2025) – Review
What is there left to be done with werewolves that hasn’t already been attempted? Ever since a depressed Lon Chaney Jr. came a cropper after
Escape From The Bronx (1983) – Review
You have to hand it to Italian maestro of mayhem, Enzo G. Castellari. Why even give the slightest of shits about such things as an
Venus Wars (1989) – Review
The issue of style over substance is something that is just as highly subjective to an individual moviegoer as comedy, or what kind of horror
Ginger Snaps (2000) – Review
For decades, the modern werewolf genre was held in the vice like grip of two of the finest werewolf movies to ever howl at the
Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin (1970) – Review
During his second movie, the extravagantly titled I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death, the titular gunslinger enigmatically announced that “Anyone could be Sartana”; but
Perfect Blue (1997) – Review
Those who don’t tend to dip their toes frequently in the pool of endless possibilities that is Anime tend to write the majority of it
The Company Of Wolves (1984) – Review
The 1980s saw its fair share of werewolf movies that broke the mold and played fast and loose with the conventions and lore of lycanthropy
Vampire Hunter D (1985) – Review
Throughout the early 80s, Anime as we knew it was more directed at families, or animated series airing on television; but in 1985, one of
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