Tag: Film

London Has Fallen (2016) – Review

The dumb action movie has to be smarter than it looks if it has a chance at cinematic immortality. Speed, The Rock, Con Air and

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Overlord (2018) – Review

Sometimes fun is all you need. No big stars, no huge talent calling “action” (unless you count J.J. Abrams with a weighty producers credit, and

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Suspiria (2018) – Review

With all the horror remakes littering the cinematic landscape that plundered hungrily from the 70’s and 80’s, it’s frankly amazing to me that it’s only

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Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (2007) – Review

Sometimes people, when faced with an adaption of beloved literature, can focus too much on the negative while being wilfully blind to the positive that’s

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Robocop 2 (1990) – Review

You wouldn’t think that the adventures of Officer Alex Murphy 2.0 would be so hard to sequelize. The ultra-violent original told the story how the

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The Story Of Ricky (1992) – Reviews

Even though I myself have used the phrase before – possibly in one of these very reviews – I’ve never really liked the term “guilty

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Piranha 3D (2010) – Review

Not content in remaking a stone cold 70’s classic in The Hills Have Eyes and THEN (sort of) remaking a slice of J-Horror while simultaneously

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Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982) – Review

Somewhat marginalised because John Carpenter had the audacity to actually want to do something original with the Halloween franchise; Halloween III could of used a

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Batman Forever (1995) – Review

It’s a heady moment. You know the one; that moment when the quality of a franchise drops sharply and you know that all is lost.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) – Review

As horror history has resolutely and repeatedly taught us is that the Texas Chainsaw movies are particularly hard to sequelize so producer Michael Bay chose

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Batman Returns (1992) – Review

After the movie Batman made the world at large ridiculously obsessed with a violent billionaire punching a mentally ill man in white-face, director Tim Burton

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Creepshow (1982) – Review

Arch zombie-meister and genuine horror legend George A. Romero and Stephen King were always a stone’s throw away from collaborating together to the point where

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Day Of The Dead (1985) – Review

Originally seen as the black sheep of the late, great George A. Romero’s dead trilogy, the climatic installment of the peerless horror franchise has defiantly

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Rambo (2008) – Review

After an extended leave of absence, and thanks to the critical success of the immensely satisfying comeback of Rocky Balboa, Stallone’s OTHER iconic character returns

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Rambo III (1988) – Review

When Sylvester Stallone puts his mind to it his screenplays are timely and full of conscience, be it the tackling intercity poverty or the fate

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Coco (2017) – Review

I’ll just say it.From around 2010 to 2016, Pixar had been what you’d politely dub: a tad uneven. For every Inside Out that fired the

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Blade II (2002) – Review

The face breaking, vamp steaking, take-no-shit Daywalker has returned.That’s right, Blade, otherwise known as Wesley Snipes’ calmer and more mild mannered alter ego, is back

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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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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) – Review

It starts with an explosion. It’s literally the first thing you see and hear. The first of many – as you’d expect from a film

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First Blood (1982) – Review

Before the cartoon patriotism and exploding arrow heads consumed the franchise as it crept deeper into the 80’s there was First Blood; quite possibly the

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