One of the most consistently irritating things about the Resident Evil franchise is that they usually end on a massive change on the status quo
Tag: 2016
The Conjuring 2
After raking in the dollars and scaring up it’s very own combined universe, James Wan’s The Conjuring was destined to be granted a sequel as
10 Cloverfield Lane
It’s a known fact that J.J. Abrams never met a massively mysterious ad campaign he didn’t like, but when it came to 10 Cloverfield Lane,
Hush
Mike Flanagan has built himself up into quite the horror factory of late, most famous these days for his heartfelt Stephen King adaptations and his
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows
One criticism leveled at the various incarnations of Ninja Turtle movies that’s come down the sewer pipe over the years is that a lot of
Phantasm: Ravager
After the confusing denouement of 1998’s Phantasm: Oblivion, it seemed that Don Coscerelli’s far out horror odessy had finally been laid to rest with no
Split
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!”
Train To Busan
In many ways, the zombie genre over the last twenty years has behaved much like zombies themselves. Uncontrollably spreading in number like a virus and
Ghostbusters
The “female reboot” is unfortunately something that still stirs up a lot of controversy despite it not really being that big a deal. For some
London Has Fallen
The dumb action movie has to be smarter than it looks if it has a chance at cinematic immortality. Speed, The Rock, Con Air and
Deepwater Horizon
Whether he would consider it a compliment or not (it actually is) when director Peter Berg turns his eye to action he truly is the
Colossal
As big a Kaiji fan as I am, I have to admit, it’s somewhat of a relief that someone’s made a movie that actually done
Assassin’s Creed
Throwing their not inconsiderable weight into the video game adaptation ring, the director and two leads from 2015’s Macbeth take a crack at what is
Independence Day: Resurgence
Full disclosure, I didn’t actually like the first Independence Day when it was first released (oh, stop jeering in the back), because back in those
The Shallows
After a somewhat lousy summer at the cinema during 2016, it turned out there was nothing better for blowing away the cinematic cobwebs than a
Warcraft
Man, I really wanted to like this one. Not because I’m big on the video game or anything but because I was really hoping that
Don’t Breathe
In what’s turning out to be quite a kick ass year for modern horror, this reunion of the Evil Dead remake’s main players (heavily abused
X-Men: Apocalypse
Well… The critics have REALLY been up and down on comic book movies this year, haven’t they? Being next out of the gate after the
Shin Godzilla
Lifelong Godzilla fan right here… The big moody lizard has been stomping cities flat for over 60 years now, with over 30 titles to his
Doctor Strange
By 2016 Marvel Studios had successfully cast it’s spell over the world like a megalomaniac hypnotist and was hitting greater heights than ever before. Their
