Despite a lot of casual horror fans being utterly unaware that it exists, Bruiser was something of a big deal when it made its bow
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Crimson Tide (1995) – Review
When approaching a submarine movie, its wise to keep the nature of pressure in mind. Not just the incredible forces that diving to unfathomable fathoms
Death Wish (2018) – Review
Action movies are literally stuffed with main characters taking the law into their own hands and yet most of the time, when a cop has
Death Wish V: The Face Of Death (1994) – Review
The year is 1994 and action cinema has exploded. James Cameron, let loose with the biggest budget ever at the time has delivered the spy/action/comedy,
Deep Fear (2023) – Review
In the dark, blue depths of the killer shark movie, there is a dorsal thin line between a movie about sharks eating people and movie
Layer Cake (2004) – Review
Once upon a time, long before irreverent Neil Gaiman adaptations, psychotic twelve year-old vigilantes and groovy X-Men movies set in the swinging sixties, Matthew Vaughn
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) – Review
After a first instalment that raised some pertinent questions about the law and justice (albeit in a very exploitative way) and a third instalment that
Runaway (1984) – Review
If you needed more proof that the world of filmmaking contains more swings and roundabouts than a playground the size of Erith, all you need
The Lodge (2019) – Review
Never mind heartwarming vistas of families building snowmen and kids sledding down marshmallow white drifts; anyone who knows anything, knows that snow is fucking scary.John
Death Wish 3 (1985) – Review
There always seems to be that telling moment in any long running franchise where it morphs into something so far removed from its original concept,
Martin (1977) – Review
George A. Romero had already earned himself a reputation for adding an original spin on classic horror tropes thanks to his bold reinvention of the
Death Wish II (1982) – Review
There’s not many genres I have trouble stomaching. Slashers? No problem. Italian cannibal movies? Sure, why not? Torture porn? A cakewalk. However, if there’s something
New Year’s Evil (1980) – Review
By 1980, a lot of the choice dates for seasonal set slasher films had already been nabbed with Black Christmas, Halloween and Friday The 13th
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014) – Review
Back in 2005, Robert Rodriguez managed to do the impossible and bottle the impossibly gritty lightning of Frank Miller’s cult, hyper-noir comic, Sin City. He
Death Wish (1974) – Review
It’s strange how the progression of a franchise can colour your perception of the original movie. Take Michael Winner’s Death Wish for example; a 1970s
The Crazies (1973) – Review
Horror has always had it’s more than its fair share of social commentary, but the 70s was it’s own animal entirely. Fueled by the anti-establishment
Sin City (2005) – Review
Even during a decade where comic book movies rose to prominence like never before, Sin City still felt like a lead pipe to the back
The Killer (2023) – Review
It’s been a while since legendarily meticulous director, David Fincher and alarmingly pessimistic screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker last collaborated fully on a feature film (Walker
The Invasion (2007) – Review
For a story that has been remade as much as Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers, it’s had a surprisingly high rate of success. Don Siegel’s
Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023) – Review
The prospect of any new Scorsese project coming down the pipe is always a tantalising moment, but there’s always that extra burst on endorphins when
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