Every now and then, Hollywood hurls an inexplicable amount of money at a project that doesn’t have ground-breaking special effects, towering sets, a cast of thousands or any particular degree of spectacle, simply because they have a ridiculous amount of … Continue reading City Heat and the Crushing Weight of Audience Expectation
Warning: Contains Spoilers! M. Night Shyamalan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inconsistent directors. In a career with more peaks and troughs than a pig farm in the Andes, he’s directed everything from solid gold classics like The Sixth Sense … Continue reading Old: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Like most kids who were into Star Wars, I loved Boba Fett in the 1980s. Unlike most kids, it was the sparseness of his big screen appearances that attracted me to him. He’s such a cool character, … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! In preparation for writing this review, I forced myself to watch the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, as I thought I might have to make comparisons and it didn’t seem fair without having at least watched it. I tried … Continue reading Ghostbusters Afterlife: Review
Warning: Major spoilers! For people who’ve seen the movie’s eyes only! The James Bond franchise is not like Star Trek or Doctor Who; it has no internal canonicity as such. There are pockets of continuity, usually within the era of … Continue reading No Time to Die: Review
Cinematic fantasy is a hard genre to make successfully and there are always plenty of releases that fall through the cracks into the realm of obscurity. Here are five of my favourites; you might have heard of all of them, … Continue reading Five Fabulous Forgotten Fantasy Films
*No, not that one. By the time I was born in 1970, the James Bond films were already well established, having enjoyed almost a decade on the silver screen, two Bonds and six films. Well, I say six films – … Continue reading You Missed, Mr. Bond: The Unlikely Story of Casino Royale*
I’ve always been a big fan of Peter Hyams’ 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, though I’m aware that I’m in something of a minority. All I can imagine is that in the wake of Alien (1980) a lot of sci-fi … Continue reading High Moon: Outland Revisited
The name of Hammer Films is now inseparably attached to classic horror, but this occurred more by financial necessity than artistic choice. Throughout their 60s heyday, the studio were trying to get all manner of projects off the ground, their … Continue reading Return to the Lost Continent!
The first Twilight Zone I ever saw was Twilight Zone – The Movie. Okay, don’t judge; I was born in 1970, before the age of even the domestic video recorder and the three TV channels that existed in Britain at … Continue reading Wanna See Something Really Scary? Revisiting Twilight Zone – The Movie
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