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Pearl (2022) – Review
Back at the beginning of the year, Ti West returned to horror and blessed us with X, a 70’s set slasher that took an overfamilar
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) – Review
“Everybody be cool.” swaggers George Clooney’s impossibly charismatic career criminal, directly into the camera, near the start of From Dusk Till Dawn, “You, be cool.”.
The Abominable Snowman (1957) – Review
By 1957, Hammer Films had already dipped their toes into the horror/sci-fi/fantasy market with The Quatermass Xperiment and X the Unknown (lot of X’s there),
The Woman King (2022) – Review
Ever since Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther decisively threw open the doors for blockbuster movies that feature predominantly black casts, filmmakers and themes, I’ve been patiently
Don’t Worry Darling (2022) – Review
After what seems to be a disproportionate amount of behind the scenes brouhaha, Don’t Worry Darling arrives in cinemas in a wake of a public
Nowhere To Run (1993) – Review
By the early nineties, the stock of Jean Claude Van Damme had risen to the point where he now was an acceptable draw at the
Escape From Alcatraz (1979) – Review
Over four collaborations that had started in 1968 with Coogan’s Bluff and ended in 1971 with the seminal Dirty Harry, the team of Don Siegel
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) – Review
Could it be that we’re entering a new, golden age of slasher movies – there’s certainly enough proof to suggest it as 2022 has already
Spontaneous Combustion (1990) – Review
As the imaginative excesses of the 80’s drew to a close, the established, iconic horror directors of the era that had seen their careers flourish
Paycheck (2003) – Review
If I’m being honest, John Woo’s big move from making home grown, Hong Kong, action bangers to adjusting to a career blowing shit up in
Beast (2022) – Review
I’m currently wracking my brain to come up with a genre that Idris Elba hasn’t yet imposed his iron will upon and I’m struggling to
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Review
What would you consider to be the ultimate Quentin Tarantino movie – not necessarily the best, but the one movie from the auteur’s filmography that
Jason Bourne (2016) – Review
After an intriguing spin-off that eventually went utterly nowhere, the powers that be decided that instead of offering up Jeremy Renner-shaped alternatives, maybe it was
Fear (1996) – Review
Sometimes a film ages so badly, rewatching them years later almost shifts the thing into a completely different genre – take the generically named Fear
Frequency (2000) – Review
It’s nice to spare a thought every now and then for those movies that never really found the audiences that they were hoping for during
Marathon Man (1976) – Review
There’s something about a thriller that leeches off the anxiety and unrest of whatever traumatised decade it originated from that you just can’t beat. In
The Bourne Legacy (2012) – Review
Usually when the lead character opts out of a franchise, it usually means that the writing is on the wall for that particular series, but
Signs (2002) – Review
Is there anyone working in cinema today that risks an entire movie on its final ten minutes more than M. Night Shyamalan?Making a name for
Alligator II: The Mutation (1990) – Review
These days, when a sequel appears after a long time after the original graced the screen, the chances are it’s being hailed as legacy sequel
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