After its release in 1999, the impactful arrival of The Blair Witch Project meant that its minimalist, lost in the woods, camcorder shot, hellscape became
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Gran Turismo (2023) – Review
After a career spent toiling away in the sci-fi genre, vainly trying to equal his cracking debut, District 9, it seemed that Neill Blomkamp was
Shin Kamen Rider (2023) – Review
Ever since tackling Japan’s largest export with 2016’s Shin Godzilla, Hideaki Anno has been dead set on give virtually all of his childhood influences a
Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead (2023) – Review
The feel-good zombie movie is a sub sub genre that has precious little entries to date. I mean, it’s hardly surprising considering that the staggering,
Fist Of Fury (1972) – Review
Sometimes film distributors really know how to screw things up. In the strange world of alternate titles, where the very name of a movie can
Meg 2: The Trench (2023) – Review
If one thing bugged me about 2018’s The Meg, it was the fact that the movie was frustratingly inconsistent when it came to letting the
The Hitcher (1986) – Review
Some movies, not unlike some people, are just born mean. They busy themselves by being as cruel and unsettling as they can be and refuse
Night Of The Living Dead (1990) – Review
Between the flashy, kick-ass remakes of the 80s and the reboot monsoon that washed throughout the horror genre during 2000s, there lies Night Of The
Talk To Me (2022) – Review
Horror movies, be it slasher, supernatural or monster based, have spent the better part of the entirety of history banking on the stupidity of its
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) – Review
Ever since the legendary Saturday morning cartoon exploded from the manhole cover of popular culture, the rambunctious quartet of adolescent, malformed, martial-art reptiles seems to
Lake Placid 2 (2007) – Review
Hey, anyone remember Lake Placid? Sure you do! It was that killer crocodile movie that came out in 1999 that had a surprisingly great cast
Attack The Block (2011) – Review
Cinematic alien invasions have taken all sorts of shapes and sizes over the decades – be it the gargantuan saucers from Independence Day hovering over
Hiruko The Goblin (1991) – Review
Swerving from the experimentally industrial metallic/phallic leanings of the Tetsuo movies to riffing on the gonzo energy of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead movies, director Shinya
Near Dark (1987) – Review
For all the glorious gifts it selflessly gave us, it’s still utterly unfathomable to me that ridiculously stylish vampire/western Near Dark isn’t as universally adored
Free Fire (2016) – Review
I really have a sizable soft spot for movies that dispense with complicated plots and multiple destinations in favour of focusing entirely on incident. It’s
They Cloned Tyrone (2023) – Review
In the wake of Jordan Peele’s Get Out, a whole slew of genre fare that had its roots solidly buried in the anxieties and trials
Barbie (2023) – Review
Movies based on toys don’t exactly have the reputation of being the smartest of cinema’s exports as every entry that proves to be the surprising
Oppenheimer (2023) – Review
As clock counted down and the zero hour approached to the release of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, it became apparent that its power didn’t just lurk
Insomnia (2002) – Review
Since drifting into the realms of the super-blockbuster with the likes of Batman Begins, is somewhat easy to forget the quieter and smaller affairs that
Pet Sematary Two (1992) – Review
Back in the late 80s, Mary Lambert pulled of something of an impressive coup. Not only was she one of the rare, women directors working
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