Species II (1998) – Review

I’ve always felt that 1995’s Species was something of a missed opportunity. If the film had been made later, with less focus on making it’s

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Outland (1981) – Review

Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that director Peter Hyams wanted to be Ridley Scott so bad?I’m ribbing, of course (although, I wouldn’t minded seeing

The Shadow (1994) – Review

After Tim Burton’s Batman broke big in 89, the race was on to try and find the next gloomy, brooding, urban vigilante to bring to

Taxi Driver (1976) – Review

If you’re talking about characters having their sanity stripped from them like some much peeling paint, then you have to start with Taxi Driver.Martin Scorsese’s

Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review

You’d think that having a disparate group of survivors fight to escape the upside-down hellscape of an upturned ocean liner would be drama enough, but

Red Heat (1988) – Review

“I give up, this whole thing’s very Russian!”So speaks Jim Belushi’s swaggering Chicago cop Art Ridzic near the end of this typically brutal action romp