John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only
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Unhinged (2020) – Review
Cinema has more than it’s fair share of mental cases lurking in plain sight, just waiting to obsessively stalk normal, everyday folk for our entertainment.
Jurassic World (2015) – Review
Films that divide audiences like Moses compartmentalising the Dead Sea aren’t exactly new, especially in these times of toxic fandom and the internet giving everyone
Jurassic Park III (2001) – Review
Back between 1993 and 1997, when the original Jurassic Park and it’s sequel burst into the public consciousness like a rampaging saurian ploughing through a
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – Review
If you ever needed an example of how truly brilliant Steven Spielberg is you would have to look no further than 1993.Why is that year
Unbreakable (2000) – Review
As someone who reviews movies for neither fame or fortune (come to think of it… why the hell AM I reviewing movies then?), I pride
Split (2016) – Review
Emerging from the impressive tailspin that pretty much left his name in tatters, that cheeky little Spielberg/Hitchcockian hybrid known as M. Night “what a twist!”
VFW (2019) – Review
It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review
There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when
BlacKkKlansman (2018) – Review
First up, let me level with you all…This is the first Spike Lee movie I ever got round to seeing. I know, I know! Legitimately
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
The Visit (2015) – Review
After a seemingly endless string of movies that turned out to be boring, dopey or just outright awful, it seemed that Hollywood twist fanatic M.
The Hunt (2020) – Review
After a rocky road to multiplexes, Blumhouse’s gory, satirical thriller finally makes it’s theatrical bow after pissing off a good selection of people (including a
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
Hollow Man (2000) – Review
Before we dig into Paul Verhoven’s tale of transparent tension I’m going to do something a little different – I’m going to tell you a
The Rhythm Section
The life of someone who lives under faked identities in order to bring a swift demise to unsuspecting wrong-doers must be insanely stressful, as spiralling
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (2018) – Review
The first Sicario, a flawless, brutal yet grimly beautiful thriller concerning policing the Mexican cartels and the dodgy, godless shit the government spooks pull to
Sicario (2015) – Review
In the many years since the War On Terror started many have forgotten that before the US of A targeted terror in it’s sights there
The Lighthouse (2019) – Review
The long awaited second movie from Robert Eggers – the man who gave us 2015’s impressive skin crawler The Witch – The Lighthouse is yet
Glass (2019) – Review
M. Night Shyamalan’s capper to the stealth trilogy – unofficially starting with Unbreakable in 2000 and stunning everyone who didn’t even realise it existed until
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