Reviews
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Heist (2015) Review
The writer of Heist had a good idea, but could not figure out how to resolve it. As in he could not give it a...
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REVIEW: The Infamous Seagal SNL Episode (1991)
When Nicolas Cage was once a guest on Saturday Night Live, he asked Lorne Michaels if he was the worst to ever appear. Without hesitation,...
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The Condemned 2 (2015) Review
Those with an interest in the upcoming sequel to Hard Target, a John Woo produced B-movie starring Scott Adkins, might want to pay attention to...
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REVIEW: Land Of The Dead (2005)
If recent zombie material isn’t cutting it for you, who better to go to than Romero, and a Romero movie that gets less raved about...
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REVIEW: Bone Tomahawk (2015) – The Best Western In Years
We’re going to be kind of spoiled for westerns this winter. We have The Hateful Eight, also starring Kurt Russell and The Revenant. Both of...
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REVIEW: Death Hunt (1981)
This movie has balls of steel, to quote Duke Nukem. And it probably reflects what this site is quintessentially about. Charles Bronson is not like...
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REVIEW: Mad Max: Fury Road 3D Blu-Ray (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road may prove to be not only the manliest movie of 2015 but probably the seminal home release for manly movies too,...
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REVIEW: Everest (2015)
I had an eye on Everest, which I witnessed recently. I had secret hopes that it would be something akin to Alive, a 1993 movie...
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REVIEW: Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 (2015)
Throughout this series I would occasionally check certain comments, feedback and social media reactions and what I found, personally anyway, was ambivalence and often outright...
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REVIEW: Shark Lake (2015) Is Whale-Shit Bad
As long as Dolph Lundgren keeps making terrible movies, they will continue to get terrible reviews. At least from those of us with the persistence...
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REVIEW: Red Dawn (2012)
Red Dawn is a tale about a bunch of metrosexuals, cheerleaders and supermodels resisting the combined forces of Russia and North Korea. Or generally speaking,...
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REVIEW: 4GOT10 (2015)
I really wonder why people like Dolph Lundgren and Danny Trejo involve themselves with schlock like this. I heard a few years back that Dolph...
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REVIEW: The Martian (2015)
After sleeping through Gravity and laughing through Interstellar, (a fine unintentional comedy if ever there was one), it’s good to see a contemporary Sci-fi tell...
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REVIEW: Tremors 5: Bloodline (2015)
I don’t really recall anything beyond Tremors apart from not making it through a sequel featuring Fred Ward. It may have been the second, but...
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REVIEW: Assault On Wall Street (2013)
I must confess to being a Uwe Boll sceptic at one point. I’d always suspected that there was more to him though, that he might...
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REVIEW: Mississippi Grind (2015)
This drama is part road movie, part solemn addiction story and part wet-cloth ‘comedy’. It is a small release due out this Friday that most...
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REVIEW: Pay The Ghost (2015)
Nicolas Cage is master of the puzzled expression. Whether this comes extra naturally to him or not, I cannot say. But in this movie, Cage...
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REVIEW: Deutschland ’83 (2015)
I’m a sucker for Cold War stuff, but especially Cold War stuff from the 1980s, when I was born. It’s more accessible and relateable, which...
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REVIEW: The ‘Burbs Director’s Cut (1989)
A while back we reviewed Joe Dante’s masterpiece The ‘Burbs on Blu-Ray, a release that included the director’s cut of the movie. Up until the...
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REVIEW: Lucky Number (2015)
This movie has a novel idea of having a few guys find the cellphone of one of their idols, a superstar basketball player, and use...
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REVIEW: Dawn Of The Dead Director’s Cut (2004)
We should be more appreciative of this movie. At a time when The Walking Dead is too busy with melodrama to show us zombies we...
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REVIEW: 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015)
WWE continues to release movies that are oddly in contrast with their central pro wrestling programming. One is a noxious weekly brew of corporate political...
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REVIEW: El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002)
Today, we take a look at a movie from the North African front, here’s a rare movie from the Italian point of view. There aren’t...
