Reviews
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Review: Monkey King 2
Director: Cheang Pou Soi Starring: Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, Feng Shaofeng Here we have the sequel to The Monkey King, released back in 2014. Whilst...
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REVIEW: I Am Wrath (2016)
I wonder if John Travolta watched the movie ‘John Wick’ then, perhaps before he’d even finished watching it, called up his agent and said; “We...
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REVIEW: The Trust (2016)
I think we can all agree that Nicolas Cage has a certain gravitas, the man is almost an attraction in and of himself. One thing...
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REVIEW: The Walking Dead Season Six Sucked
I wondered several times while watching season six of The Walking Dead how much longer it would go on. Not ‘is there going to be...
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REVIEW: Countdown (2016)
Here’s a 90 minute quicksand pit of bush league boredom. And if you want my advice you should ignore this movie, even those of you...
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REVIEW: Heart Of America (2002)
Heart of America (2002) Director: Uwe Boll Starring: Michael Pare, Jurgen Prochnow, Maria Conchita Alonso, Brendan Fletcher, Lochlyn Munroe As many of us eagerly await...
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REVIEW: The Falcon And The Snowman (1985)
Recently in ‘The Americans’, a Cold War series set in the 1980s, after what I was feeling was pending stagnation, the series picked up somewhat....
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REVIEW: The Pacific (2010)
I never really got into this series the first time around. Couldn’t put my finger on why, aside from entire episodes devoted to tedious, washy,...
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REVIEW: The Seasoning House (2012)
Review: The Seasoning House (2012) Director: Paul Hyett Starring: Sean Pertwee, Rosie Day, Kevin Howarth Following hot on the heels of The Horseman, here’s another...
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REVIEW: The Horseman (2008)
Review: The Horseman (2008) Director: Steven Kastrissios Starring: Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy and Brad McMurray From Mad Max to Wolf Creek, Australia has managed to...
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REVIEW: Triple 9 (2016)
Ensemble movies always tantalize as a buffet attraction, but all too often many of them are victims of their own components. I picture a scene...
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REVIEW: London Has Fallen (2016)
In the era of super hero hegemony, where it is mandated that every action hero wear leotards or dress as a toy shelf friendly rodent,...
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REVIEW: Gods Of Egypt (2016)
Swords and sandals are a go-to genre for manly movies. In the old days especially. I mean who can forget Ray Harryhausen’s masterful stop motion...
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[REVIEW] Forsaken (2016)
This movie should really have come in swinging, against the ongoing dirge of ‘pansexual’ action figure movies. For one, it had a great cast, the...
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REVIEW: Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016)
If I’m being honest then going into this movie I expected the worst, not least because the last ‘Jarhead’ (Jarhead 2: Field of Fire) was...
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REVIEW: The Survivalist (2016)
I wondered while watching the film, with its foreboding isolation and sense of doom why The Walking Dead could not be similar. Of course, it’s...
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REVIEW: The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
Sean Bean’s Major Sharpe Gets a Resurrection (Of Sorts) I’m not sure how many readers will have caught The Frankenstein Chronicles which went out on...
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REVIEW: Used Cars (1980)
I haven’t posted a review here in a while. I’ve been sent some of the worst schlock imaginable, some of it with once famous names,...
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REVIEW: Driven To Kill (2009)
2009 was the year that the global economy started to recover. It was the year that Israel invaded Gaza and the year that Michael Jackson...
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REVIEW: Rocky V: Director’s Cut (1990)
Rocky V was always like the hangover from the party that was Rocky IV. It’s depressing and there’s a lot of irritable shit in...
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REVIEW: Out For Justice (1991)
1991 was the final year of the Cold War. It was the year India abandoned its policies of socialism and autarky and the year that...
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REVIEW: Bloodrayne – The Third Reich (2011)
Since becoming something of an Uwe Boll fan after seeing his banker-brutalisingly entertaining Assault on Wall Street and the equally satisfying and politically charged Rampage...
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REVIEW: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Bruce Willis should be ashamed of himself for appearing in this soft-assed shit, half of it filmed in a Bulgarian quarry. For a while back...
