It is easy to forget that The Usual Suspects didn’t arrive on the scene with a fanfare or a huge marketing campaign. Despite featuring an impressive cast which includes Benicio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne and of course Kevin Spacey, the movie … Continue reading Twist Week: The Usual Suspects (1995) Review
Stroszek has a bizarre reputation. Known to be quite a depressing film, it was the last movie watched by Joy Division’s front-man Ian Curtis (subject of movie Control) before he committed suicide and has an ending that the crew were not … Continue reading Stroszek (1977) Review
Arrival is a film about a woman trying to talk to aliens. It goes a little deeper than that but if you had to boil the plot down and avoid spoilers, that is essentially it. For an alien invasion movie there … Continue reading Arrival (2016) Review
Leave any preconceptions at the door, sit back and give Gleaming the Cube a chance. The premise doesn’t sound the stuff of movie magic, with a teenage skater investigating the death of his adopted-brother, but if you are willing to suspend … Continue reading Gleaming the Cube (1989) Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! There is something comforting about the familiarity of Modern Family. Strongly in it’s fifth season and … Continue reading Modern Family (Season 5) TV Review
The Universal Monsters mixed with The Goonies sounds like a studio meeting gone wrong. To throw together two movies like that would usually end in unmitigated disaster but something about the way that The Monster Squad delivers this story actually works. … Continue reading Horror Week: Monster Squad (1987) Review
There is legitimate argument that Ringu isn’t a horror movie at all. The Japanese cult movie feels like it should be a horror and has a great horror premise but when you actually watch the movie, it never really delivers the … Continue reading Horror Week: Ringu (1998) Review
In the pantheon of iconic horror villains, Hellraiser’s Pinhead is definitely high on the list. His design is so shocking and instantly creepy that it is no wonder he stands toe-to-toe with the likes of Freddie Kruger or Jason Voorhees. It … Continue reading Horror Week: Hellraiser (1987) Review
Nobody was particularly asking for a sequel to the excellent 1999 horror movie The Blair Witch Project but that didn’t stop the trickle of excitement once the shock reveal of the movie first titled The Woods was in fact Blair … Continue reading Horror Week: Blair Witch (2016) Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! In Supernatural’s third season, the show seems to finally have found it’s footing and the … Continue reading Supernatural (Season 3) TV Review
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