Striking Distance (1993) – Review

When crafting a movie, it helps to have something of a cohesive vision of what the final product will look like. Tone, plot, characters –

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Heat (1995) – Review

A perfect film. Can such a thing possibly exist? Well, unless you’re one of those tiresome, smug, moviegoers who lack any chill whatsoever, the answer

Strange Days (1995) – Review

Some of you may not remember the anxiety that the world seemed to be consumed by as the clock ticked down to reach the year

Company Of Heroes (2013) – Review

As we head into occupied territory on the way to face the final days of the German army, we unsurprisingly find ourselves once again in

Seal Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines (2014) – Review

As long as I’ve been watching examples of  needless, cinema bypassing movie sequels to long defunct franchises, I’ll never truly understand why they’re allowed to

True Romance (1993) – Review

Back when Quentin Tarantino was only one movie deep into his two-film conquest of Hollywood, the assault was carried on in his stead by a

Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Review

“That’s quite a view.”If the First World War was erroneously said to be the war to end all wars, then surely Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private

Black Hawk Down (2001) – Review

In order to place you deeply into the maelstrom of cacophonous hell that is war, filmmakers often have to embrace the chaos if they’re going

Pearl Harbor (2001) – Review

To this day, “Bayologists” (the term for the nonexistent scientists I just made up who study the works of Michael Bay) still aren’t entirely sure

The Relic (1997) – Review

Sometimes, nothing warms my cockles more than a good, old fashioned monster movie, and in the dying years of the 20th century I guess a