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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) – Review

May 12, 2019 greigzilla

Full disclosure, I didn’t actually like the first Independence Day when it was first released (oh, stop jeering in the back), because back in those

They Live (1988) – Review

May 12, 2019 greigzilla

Surfacing during a time when Regan’s politics were powerbombing the American working class through the announcer’s table of poverty, John Carpenter’s They Live is quite

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) – Review

May 11, 2019 greigzilla

On paper, a sequel to Pacific Rim, Gullermo Del Toro’s flawed but fun love letter to giant monster movies, seemed like a no brainer. The

The Blob (1988) – Review

May 11, 2019 greigzilla

When people sit and discuss great remakes (as I assume we all often do…), conversation inevitably turns to The Thing and The Fly, two movies

Prometheus (2012) – Review

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Prometheus should’ve been a triumphant return… It marked the return of Ridley Scott to science fiction, a genre he hadn’t tackled since 1982 with the

Predators (2010) – Review

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Try as they might, filmmakers just a can’t seem to give the Predator that flawless second outing he so richly deserves. The original is a

Total Recall (1990) – Review

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Snuggled neatly in the centre of Paul Verhoven’s magnificent unofficial Sci-fi trilogy, sits Total Recall (we don’t count Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon’s invisible penis thriller,

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – Review

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By the time it was time to make a sequel to the biggest film in the world, George Lucas backed out. The sheer stress of

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (2009) – Review

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Over my many years of watching blockbuster movies, I feel I’ve developed quite the bullshit detector when it comes to hype. Taking trailers, on-set reports

Star Wars (1977) – Review

April 28, 2019 greigzilla

It all starts with a fanfare, a blast of trumpets that’s almost a literal slap in the face. “PAY ATTENTION” it sceams, “Your world is

Alien: Covenant (2017) – Review

April 26, 2019 greigzilla

Prometheus, to be ironically fair, was a mixed beast. Promising far more than it delivered, Ridley Scott’s flawed return to the Alien franchise he started