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
Tag: Film Review
Without Warning (1980) – Review
It’s truly facinating how echoes of film concepts can drift through the ether and pop up again in a completely different form that still carry
Hatchet II (2010) – Review
“Mr. Crowley”, sung Ozzy Oborne once “What went on in your head?”. Well, when it comes to the mindset of director Adam Green, is seems
Dangerous Animals (2025) – Review
The killer shark movie has been swimming in circles for quite a while now as endless movies (usually straight to streaming) from all around the
Tarzan And The Slave Girl (1950) – Review
I wonder if the writers of the old Tarzan films ever panicked when asked to pen yet another adventure featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ rippling muscled
Sniper (1993) – Review
Cinema has always been stuffed full of ironies, but one of my favorite is that Sniper, a movie about the stealthiest of military professions, somehow
Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987) – Review
Some movie cement their place in immortality by crafting a sublime experience that takes you to another world so completely that for a while at
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) – Review
Over the last few months, my journey through the Karate Kid franchise has taken to some far stranger places than Encino or Bejing. I am
The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015) – Review
Out of all the long running, low end action franchises out there, surely The Marine series was one of the most directionless. Starting out as
The Ritual (2025) – Review
Anyone else feel like the exorcism movie could use an exorcism of its own? I only say this because I’m long past the point now
xXx: Return Of Xander Cage (2017) – Review
Let me relay to you my idea of a concept of absolute Hell. Imagine this: you’re sat at a PC, trying to write a screenplay
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005) – Review
Shifts in subgenre midway through a franchise aren’t as rare (or as desperate) as they might initially sound, it’s just how you handle it that
Fountain Of Youth (2025) – Review
Does anyone else feel like Guy Richie isn’t really trying much anymore?That’s not to take a cheap shot at a director who not only was
The Woman In The Yard (2025) – Review
When is a ghost/demon movie not a ghost/demon movie? When it’s a thinly veiled metaphor for human grief and suicidal impulses.OK, so maybe that non-joke
Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) – Review
Four years ago, Netflix went all out on Fear Street, a sprawling, slasher trilogy that took the book series by R.L. Stine and delivered a
Species: The Awakening (2007) – Review
I feel like if we someone were to compile a list of franchises that saw their dying installments show up on Syfy, it would look
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – Review
Ever since he pulled off his first rubber mask way back in 1996, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has been on a breathless mission; but while
Pathfinder (2007) – Review
Sometimes a movie comes along with a premise so promising, it causes you to uncontrollably salivate like Giger’s Alien at the prospect of experiencing it.
Hostel (2005) – Review
If there ever was a product of its time, then surely it was the aggressively nasty horror sub-genre known as torture porn. Technically jump started
Gone In 60 Seconds (2000) – Review
The powerhouse producing duo of Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson undeniably changed the face of Hollywood during the 1980s by giving it an unfeasibly glossy
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