“It’s just so massive… so stupid…” mulls Brian Tyree Henry’s conspiracy theorist during a rare quiet moment during the latest entry into Legendary’s Monsterverse and
Tag: 2020s
Skylines
If you’d told me as I was leaving the cinema after watching Skyline in 2010 that the execrable sci-fi flick would eventually make it to
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
The behind-the-scenes stories behind Zack Snyder’s version of DC’s premier super-team are fittingly legend, but finally, mercifully, after a production history as jagged as one
Possessor
Being a second generation director who dips his toes in the same pond as your father takes balls, great big bulbous ones, but in the
Willy’s Wonderland
Ever since Nicolas Kim Coppola (known to fans and foes alike as Nicolas Cage) switched up his roles to match the type of deranged acting
Space Sweepers
From the hapless, jumpsuited victims of Alien to the Guardians Of The Galaxy, to the lesser known flicks such as Stuart Gordon’s Space Truckers and
Outside The Wire
Another month and it yet another sci-fi action film materializes on Netflix with barely a week of fanfare to precede it. I’m not sure if
Wonder Woman 1984
To use the catchphrase of floundering oil tycoon wannabe and chief Wonder Woman 1984 villain Maxwell Lord, “Life is good, but it can be better!”.
Black Water: Abyss
Presumably made to remind a blissfully ignorant world that killer croc movie, Black Water was made back in 2007 – a film that I’d actually
Soul
As the twelve month social write-off that historians will distainfully refer to as 2020 limped to the end of it’s run, one thing that managed
Peninsula
Released in 2016 to universal acclaim, Yeon Sang Ho’s Train To Busan was the best thing to happen to the zombie genre in bloody ages.
#Alive
The biggest problem you could possibly face being a Korean filmmaker with aspirations of crafting a zombie film is that there’s absolute no way in
His House
Horror movies throughout the passages of time have prided themselves on reflecting the prevalent social issues of the moment – be it The Texas Chainsaw
Saint Maud
Indie distributor A24 has been carving quite the impressive path throughout this golden age of the rather ill-defined sub-genre known as “thoughtful horror”, giving such
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Back in 2017 Netflix knocked out a feisty comedy horror that not only rose about the usual three-star-and-under type of throwaway film that they usually
Bill & Ted Face The Music
Like, woah… Of all the belated comebacks made by cinematic characters over the last few years, surely the return of the eternally upbeat slackers known
Unhinged
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.
Tenet
What with pandemics and social anxiety making the world around us an ever more stressful environment, you may be forgiven for feeling the urge to
The New Mutants
The X-Men have faced many an obstacle in their long and varied career that includes everything from Magneto’s latest hissy fit to Mojo desperately needing
The Old Guard
Immortals wandering among us while striving to avoid rubbing their death-resistant existence in the faces of us “normies” isn’t exactly a new concept but new
