Tag: Film Review

The Heroes Of Telemark (1965) – Review

If you want a good, old fashioned war flick, that’s set away from the grime and gore of the trenches, there’s a few ingredients that

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) – Review

When the titles started rolling on Hammer’s previous Frankenstein endeavor, there was a feeling that Peter Cushing’s resident violator of the laws of nature was

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Squirm (1976) – Review

While describing the 70’s output of nature going crazy movies as a heyday may strain your personal definition of what a heyday should be, there’s

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Midway (1976) – Review

When filmmakers opt to make a film that covers a large aspect of a war, they invariably find themselves faced with something of a Sophie’s

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Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) – Review

There’s no two ways about it, a follow up to Beverly Hills Cop should have been nothing short a slam dunk. Just look at the

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Von Ryan’s Express (1965) – Review

During its heyday, the World War II set mission movie enjoyed many an all star cast as the war was won seemingly on every conceivable

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Poltergeist (1982) – Review

Most ghost movies usually rely on subtlety to give an audience a taste of what lurks on the other side – take Robert Wise’s work

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The Eagle Has Landed (1976) – Review

World War II men on a mission movies: we all know them and we all love them (the good ones, anyway) but sometimes, aside from

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The Magnificent Seven (1960) – Review

Expertly panel beating the plot of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai into a shape that could comfortably sustain cowpokes instead of sword swingers, The Magnificent Seven

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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) – Review

When you think about the origins of Hammer Films, your naturally brain naturally drifts to images of Peter Cushing’s Frankenstein staring intently from around a

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Escape To Athena (1979) – Review

When you take a good, long, hard look at that much-loved sub-genre of the war film – the men on a mission movie – there’s

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) – Review

The only thing that was surprising about insanely influential screenwriter Shane Black making the long overdue jump to directing was that it took so bloody

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Lust For A Vampire (1971) – Review

It’s not exactly ground breaking to declare that, compared to most other horror movies made at the time, Hammer Films’ output was noticeably hornier than

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Dungeons & Dragons (2000) – Review

When news broke that a movie finally based on the legendary role playing game, Dungeons & Dragons was finally being made, there was debate between

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Dark Star (1974) – Review

Everybody has to start somewhere and in the case of deliriously influential film director, John Carpenter, the start was a forty minute student film made

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Ticks (1994) – Review

Of the many, varied projects (and I do mean varied) that sprang from the tireless funding of Brian Yunza during that horror-starved period known as

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Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968) – Review

For any long running cinematic character, staying relevant and fresh is the key to success. Take Hammer’s version of Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire Count Dracula,

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The Lair (2022) – Review

When news broke that Neil Marshall was making a long awaited return to monster movie territory, I was understandably stoked. After all, the director kicked

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Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022) – Review

Surely it’s about time we all start cutting James Cameron a little slack, right? Sure, he now releases movies at a rate that makes Terrence

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The Last Stand (2013) – Review

After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term as the Governator of California was at an end, it was only a matter of time before he found himself back

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