
Short Film Review: Cottonmouth (2020)
Having starred as Nancy – heroine of the very first Nightmare on Elm Street movie back in 1984 – actress Heather Langenkamp has been associated with the horror genre. This […]
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Having starred as Nancy – heroine of the very first Nightmare on Elm Street movie back in 1984 – actress Heather Langenkamp has been associated with the horror genre. This […]
Back in 1989, the concept of a dark, serious and Gothic-styled Batman was alien to mainstream audiences, whose point of reference when it came to Bruce Wayne’s alter ego was […]
I went into Chloe Zhao’s Eternals with an open mind; despite the negative critical and commercial reaction that greeted the film upon release – which was enough to dampen my […]
I’ve already covered my favourite video game of 2021, my favourite comic book of 2021 and even my favourite tabletop game of 2021 – so now it’s time to check […]
There’s more than one moment in Spider-Man: No Way Home that brought me to tears. It’s a rare film that can do that not just in tragic moments, but in […]
I remember seeing the trailers for The Matrix in advance of release; coming just a few years after Johnny Mnemonic, another Keanu Reeves-starring cyberpunk movie didn’t seem like the best […]
Though its runtime is less than an hour, the new all-CGI Diary of a Wimpy Kid from Disney still qualifies as a movie in my opinion. Just a very short […]
After watching the teens vs teacher, violent exploitation classic Class of 1984 recently, I thought I should check out the loose sequel – Class of 1999 – from Mark L. […]
There were very few films I wasn’t allowed to see as a kid; zombie films were off the menu, as were a few other horror titles, but generally I was […]
When Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, few would have predicted just how big the MCU would become. I remember wondering how filmmakers could possibly make […]
A reworking of Aladdin set in modern day China, Wish Dragon is a colourful, fun CG-animation that has buckets of charm and plenty of anarchic humour. Din pines after his […]
As the reboot trilogy came to an end with 1999’s Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, it seemed as if we’d seen the last of our rocket-powered turtle guardian. However, seven […]
Beginning with flashbacks to the events of the first film from a different perspective, we technically don’t get the same buildup to Gamera’s emergence that we did with the first […]
A meteor shower brings with it a clutch of giant, deadly bugs and something even bigger that nests in a Japanese building. With the military struggling to contain the threat […]
After the disastrous 1980 entry in the Gamera series – Gamera: Super Monster – which was little more than an hour and a half of clips, along with some truly […]
Produced by Friday the 13th’s Sean S. Cunningham for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, written by The Monster Squad’s Fred Dekker and directed by underappreciated horror director Steve Miner (who […]