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Remember ten years ago when you would be in HMV looking at a DVD box set of something like The West Wing and then unfolding the twenty pound note in your pocket and wondering whether to part with all that cash for something you had never seen? You had just heard that someone somewhere liked it, [...]
Anime as a sub-genre of nearly every other genre is pretty crazy in and of itself. The fact that there exists an anime somewhere covering just about every genre and subject that you can imagine is the product of a culture perhaps far more understanding and open to experimentation. In the west we have very [...]
The phrase ‘Jump the Shark’ comes from a 1977 episode of Happy Days when Fonzie was out in Hollywood and was actually invited to water ski over a confined shark, still wearing his leather jacket of course. It represents a moment where a TV show forgot why everyone liked it in the first place and resorted [...]
Bullet to the Head was Walter Hill’s long awaited (by me anyway) return to directing after a ten-year absence. When it came out in February it was not well received and not screened in advance for critics, but now it’s out on home formats it’s time for an agonising re-appraisal of the film. Taken on its [...]
In medical trials around 99% of the subjects suffer no actual side effects from the drugs that are pumped into them, but what about the other 1%? That’s what The Facility takes as its core idea and although it’s not a true story, it is presented as if it’s a reconstruction of an actual event. [...]
Director George A.Romero is perhaps best known for his horror work and being the granddaddy of the zombie film, but in 1981 he changed tack completely and released this trippy drama which feels like Sons of Anarchy by way of Dungeons and Dragons. Knightriders feels very much a film of its time and is one [...]
Horror as a genre is full of easy targets, which makes it probably the most lampooned genre there is. You have your Scary Movies and A Haunted Houses which spoof all of the recent successes in the genre as well as everything else but then you also have films that parody, honour and do something [...]
RZA’s directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists was one of the most anticipated films coming out (for me anyway) last autumn. RZA is a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, the rap collective obsessed with old Shaw Brothers kung-fu flicks. It was produced by Quentin Tarantino, co-written by Eli Roth and seemed like something [...]
I think it’s high time we declared a moratorium on films that are purposefully made to look as shitty and rough as possible. It worked first time around with Rodriguez/Tarantino’s Grindhouse and a few imitators that followed did it well like Hobo with a Shotgun which had the grime without going overboard. As all things [...]
Scanners is the last low-budget Canadian film that David Cronenberg made before he went legit with the masterpiece Videodrome and pretty good Stephen King adaptation The Dead Zone. Scanners was also way ahead of its time, it presents similar themes and characters that would become commonplace some twenty years later with things like Heroes, X-Men and Chronicle. Of [...]
Following on from the rather wonderful Norwegian modern fairy tale Troll Hunter, now we have another attempt at updating fairy-tale and folklore tropes for the modern age with Thale. I would dispel any comparisons with that movie from your mind though before watching Thale because it’s very much a different film. Whereas Troll Hunter was all [...]
Having grown up as a teen on the troubled streets of South Central Los Angeles, writer and director David Ayer is fast becoming the best chronicler of the crime, social injustice and random violence that forever plagues the city of angels. Since writing the screenplays for Training Day and Dark Blue, Ayer has turned to [...]
Setting back society by demonizing the working classes all over again is writer/director Jason Ford and his film Community, which is definitely not to be confused with the feel good US series now in its fourth season. Ford’s film is another attack on a country where the gulf between the haves and have not’s has never [...]
Since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon hit big back in 2000 and unexpectedly crossed over into the mainstream thanks to director Ang Lee’s artful approach, the Wuxia sub genre of Asian action flicks has been in kind of a funk. Director Zhang Yimou brought it further into the public consciousness with his visually stunning films Hero and House of Flying [...]
Two things I am sick of in horror: 1. Found footage films and 2. Zombies. The shambling corpse of the zombie film has been milked to death over the last ten years starting with 28 Days Later and up to now where we somehow have romantic zombies in Warm Bodies. Every couple of years though [...]
When it comes to the fourth instalment of a largely straight to DVD franchise starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, you can usually be sure of a few things. The formula won’t be changed much, there will be the pre-requisite amount of violence and grunting and both of them will just show up [...]
Remakes usually strike whilst the iron is hot when it comes to popular foreign films. The Ring for example came out within four years of the release of the Japanese original and the same with The Grudge. So it’s curious that a British remake of a low-key 1996 Danish thriller should only now be making its [...]
At this point it seems fairly redundant to review a Resident Evil movie. No matter how much critical bile or hate is thrown at these movies they seem to turn a profit and have a healthy opening weekend at the box office. Resident Evil: Retribution is the latest in the series and seems to maybe [...]
The first Grave Encounters won some minor acclaim early last year when released straight to DVD as it went places that Paranormal Activity wouldn’t dare. Here was a film with a set up familiar to anyone who went to the cinema in the hopes of seeing something in the corner of a static video camera. [...]
The first Taken was released ahead of the US in the UK and opened to pretty bad reviews and subsequently disappeared from cinemas pretty quickly. Then about four months later it opened in the US in a cut form and was a massive box office success. This release coincided with the UK DVD release so people [...]