Reviews
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REVIEW: Operation Avalanche (2016)
Cynicism is the order of the day in today’s geopolitical world. From both angles, the two presidential candidates running in the 2016 United States election...
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REVIEW: Lady In Cement (1968)
‘She’s one blonde I know didn’t have more fun’ *spoiler alert* Ex-Miami cop turned private detective, Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) encounters mobsters, girls in micro-minis...
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REVIEW: Green Room (2016) Blu-Ray
I gotta admit, if Picard (he shall be called nothing else but Picard on this site) is in something, I’m probably going to watch it....
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REVIEW: Merantau (2009)
Before Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais exploded onto the global action film scene with The Raid and The Raid 2, they earned their stripes debuting...
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REVIEW: The Hunted (1995)
SPOILERS ‘I don’t fight for honor. I fight to win’ The Hunted is an intriguing and action-packed gem from the mid-nineties. It features engaging performances...
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Review: Rampage President Down (2016)
Here it is gentlemen, the final instalment of Uwe Boll’s Rampage trilogy. This is where it ends. Bill Williamson’s campaign of terror against the corrupt,...
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REVIEW: Hard Target 2 (2016) Blu-Ray
I kind of had quiet hopes for this film. If nothing else it had Scott Adkins and Robert Knepper, I knew they’d go to town...
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REVIEW: Call Of Heroes (2016)
I was not expecting much for this film, particularly because this really did not have anything going for it, judging from the marketing material. The...
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REVIEW: Point Blank (1967)
‘I want my money. I want my 93 grand’ Lee Marvin is vengeful and hyper-focused professional criminal Walker in this smartly directed crime drama from...
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REVIEW: Funeral In Berlin (1966)
“I’m not killing anybody in cold blood” Michael Caine’s second outing as everyman spy Harry Palmer is a twisty thriller with plenty of double-crosses and...
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REVIEW: The Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
I didn’t have much time for the first Mechanic, the 2011 version that is. It didn’t live up to the Charles Bronson and Jan Michael...
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REVIEW: Daylight’s End (2016)
If you’re wondering what Lance Henriksen has been up to recently, you’ll probably be interested in his latest movie, Daylight’s End, which is set for...
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REVIEW: The Sea Wolves (1980)
Fogeys versus Fascists or Atticus Finch and James Bond machine gun Nazis. The Sea Wolves is a funny, entertaining and occasionally bloody ‘men on mission’...
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REVIEW: Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
I noticed some very early ‘mainstream’ reviews of this movie, some weren’t positive. I didn’t read them, but I wasn’t surprised, because I had low...
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REVIEW: Flatfoot (1973)
‘You hit me harder than Muhammed Ali!’ Bud Spencer stars as tough Inspector ‘Flatfoot’ Ritso in this action packed Italian detective film. In the movie,...
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REVIEW: The Ipcress File (1965)
The Ipcress File deglamorizes the spy business. Director Sidney J. Furie emphasizes its banality, mundaneness and structured bureaucratic nature. Instead of fast cars, exotic locations and beautiful...
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Wolf Creek (The Series) 2016
You may have seen murderous psychopath Mick Taylor’s darkly entertaining outings in Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek 2, but here we have his latest adventure,...
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REVIEW: The Osterman Weekend (1983)
This 1983 version of author Robert Ludlum’s (The Bourne Identity) novel deals with voyeurism, surveillance, corruption and madness and stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt and...
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REVIEW: The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Harry Palmer versus 90’s James Bond, or so it seems in this tense and suspenseful 1987 Cold War thriller from bestselling espionage author, Frederick Forsyth...
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REVIEW: Edge Of Winter (2016)
This movie started out well, but I should have known better. We see Joel Kinnaman as a dishevelled father excluded from the life of his...
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REVIEW: Blood Father (2016)
The only movies I’ve enjoyed as much as Blood Father in recent years have been The Revenant and John Wick. I had high expectations for...
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REVIEW: Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016)
Well I guess we can finally answer the burning question that all of us had earlier this year, was Steven Seagal’s Sniper: Special Forces a part...
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REVIEW: Eraser (1996)
Hard to believe “Eraser” came out 20 years ago. Is 1996 truly the last golden year of big, bravado, larger-than-life action filmmaking? I mean, it...
