There was something perversely fascinating about watching a man of Denzel Washington’s infinite talents stab, punch, batter and shoot his way through The Equalizer, Antoine
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Dreamscape
Despite my voracious appetite for movies back in my 80’s based childhood, there’s always was going to be the odd title that slipped through the
Scanners III: The Takeover
With the amount of super powered franchises literally zipping across the skies these days, its genuinely dumbfounding that no one has managed to repurpose David
The Warriors
Here’s a message for all you boppers out there… Walter Hill was a filmmaker that enjoyed toying with stories that concerned themselves with unabashed alpha
Sisu
Ever since Quentin Tarantino made the Second World War “fun” again with Inglorious Basterds, I’ve been waiting for someone to come along to deliver a
The Equalizer
Of all the actors to tackle their advancing years by going the Liam Neeson/Taken route and portraying a dude who can make mincemeat of men
Backdraft
Why hasn’t there been more movies about fire fighters?I mean, there’s been tons that involve military personnel and countless films made about policing and police
Scanners II: The New Order
During his early, horror phase, David Cronenberg gave us a clutch of visceral, thought provoking and reliably grotesque movies that tested the status quo as
The Way Of The Gun
Before Christopher McQuarrie became Tom Cruise’s number one stunt enabler, he was most famous for penning the labyrinthian screenplay for Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects
Life
When the trailer first surfaced for the 2017 sci-fi creeper, Life, there was a persistent theory going the rounds that it was actually a secret
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Anyone who has witnessed the glacial cool that Rutger Hauer bestowed to either of the genuinely terrifying villains of Blade Runner or The Hitcher might
Cop Land
Over the years, Sylvester Stallone’s career has taken more dips than a communal pot of salsa at a Nacho festival and yet, like the actor’s
Carriers
This might be something of a tasteless observation to make, but any director of movie made about a global pandemic must be thinking that the
Fall
Cinema adores cliffhangers, both literal and otherwise and so whenever there’s a chance to put characters in really sticky situations, you can bet that filmmakers
Infinity Pool
I’ve always found that to compare a famous artist to their famous parent is something that’s not only inherently unfair, but surely is a recipe
Taxi Driver
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
Four Flies On Grey Velvet
Dario Argento has been dubbed the master of horror more times than I’ve had hot dinners – and I’m not usually known for skipping too
The Driver
Walter Hill’s 1978 thriller is one of those movies that’s managed to affect popular culture without being that well known to the general public. Not
The Last Of Us – Season 1, Episode 9: Look For The Light
Well, Bella Ramsey did say the final episode would be polarizing, didn’t she?After eight weeks of touching love stories, harrowing deaths and more heart-in-the-mouth moments
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Despite a run of fantasy films in the 50’s and 60’s, the never ending Land Before Time series, the Jurassic Park franchise and The Flintstones,
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