There’s a wave of nostalgia that envelops certain movies that really fail to hold up when the cold, cruel light of modern day is shone
Tag: Sci-Fi
The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004) – Review
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most interesting thing about David Twohy’s 2000, science fiction epic Pitch Black was the bald, shiny-eyed, morality vacuum
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Review
The noise of a franchise exploding back into life after years spent in slumber is a tough sound to pin down but in Mad Max’s
Mad Max 2 (1981) – Review
Sometimes known by the unfeasibly bad-ass title “The Road Warrior”, George Miller’s ambitiously deranged sequel to his own DIY dystopian original somehow is regularly forgotten
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – Reviews
The pros of the (still relatively new) practice of filming sequels back to back are all fairly apparent. After all the Lord Of Rings trilogy
Inception (2010) – Review
After impressing the cinema going public with such standout movies such as Momento and The Prestige (two films as notoriously twisty as a piece of
Mad Max (1979) – Review
Undoubtedly the crown jewel of of the 70’s Ozploitation explosion, George Miller’s blistering, dytopian 1979 revenge flick Mad Max kicked opened the doors for Australian
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) – Review
There is a school of thought that in a perfect world there would be no need for sequels and regardless how you feel about such
Interstellar (2014) – Review
Christopher Nolan over the course of his career has taken great measures to bring complex to the multiplex. Gleefully screwing with way cinema handles such
The Matrix (1999) – Review
The year was 1999 and the world was focused on the fact that George Lucas’ Star Wars saga was about to make it’s return to
Men In Black (1997) – Review
It’s a fairly accurate comment to say that the summer season of 1997 was somewhat bloated, but when you dig into the list of offenders
Hulk (2003) – Review
After the announcement that the acclaimed director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain was going to tackle his first summer blocker with an
Armageddon (1998) – Review
Michael Bay, Hollywood’s unrepentant purveyor of blowing shit up real good, had pretty much detonated a fair chunk of Miami in his debut, Bad Boys,
The Thing (1982) – Review
John Carpenter very well may be one of the beloved genre filmmakers walking this earth and after a quick glance at his filmography (especially during
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
In a time where both Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and George Lucas’ Star Wars had not only both changed the face of Science Fiction cinema but
Riddick (2013) – Review
Thirteen years after the debut of Riddick, the silvery eyed space criminal made relatively famous by chrome-domed franchise junkie Vin Diesel, David Twohy was enlisted
Bloodshot (2020) – Review
Whether you are a member of the MCU faithful, a DCEU fanatic or even if you’ve laid you hat at the door of the Monsterverse,
Pitch Black (2000) – Review
Vin Diesel – arguably in the top three for action’s premier muscular slap-head – boasts quite a few characters in his resume but I’ve always
The Invisible Man (2020) – Review
After Tom Cruise’s 2017 brush with The Mummy failed to jump start Universal’s Dark Universe – an MCU style franchise of connected films that was
Color Out Of Space (2019) – Review
I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site about the difficulty hollywood has had in trying to visualise the unearthly works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (H.P. to
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