Category Archive: Movie Reviews

The Lie That Film Marketers Should Stop Telling Us

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There’s a lot of major franchises being reinvented in this day and age from the classic Sherlock Holmes stories right up to modern hits like Jurassic Park. There’s a bit of a problem with… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘SPECTRE’

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Plot:  Picking up shortly after the events of Skyfall, SPECTRE finds the indomitable MI-6 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a mission to kill a man at the request of the recently deceased M (Judi… Continue reading

Reviewing the Scary Movies that Traumatised My Childhood (Part 4)

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The more I think about it, the more horrifying experiences I had watching movies as a child. It’s time to dig into the subconscious lurking horrors and revisit the past once more. If… Continue reading

Horror: A Woman’s Game

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With the new millennium women in horror movies continued their upward trend following the 90s reinvention and became bigger and better characters. Taking notes from Misery the rise of women as villains become… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation’

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  Plot:  When civil war approaches a small West African village, many of the townspeople are forced to flee to the capital for sanctuary.  Among those is the family of a adolescent boy… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Bone Tomahawk’

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Directed by: S. Craig Zahler Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox, and Patrick Wilson Plot: In the Old West, a 4-man posse set out to resuce some of their fellow townsfolk from cave-dwelling troglodytes. Review:… Continue reading

5 Great Vampire Movies Post-‘Twilight’

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I have never actually saw the Twilight movies. I don’t make it a habit bad-mouthing them (again, because I have never seen them). There seemed to be a feeling during their tenure near the top… Continue reading

Horror: A Woman’s Game (Part 1)

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This is something that I’ve been rolling around in my mind for a while now, and I’ve held off on it until Halloween to tie into the spirit of the season. Now I’m… Continue reading

Reviewing the Scary Movies that Traumatised My Childhood (Part 3)

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We all have one…that one image that stayed with you from childhood. The one that the shadows in your room formed themselves into at night. Maybe you grew up and forgot it, maybe… Continue reading

Why the ‘Back to the Future’ Trilogy Means So Much To Me

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  In preparing to write this article, something strange and ironic hit me.  The year that shaped me as a movie fan forever, occurred between August of 1984 and August of 1985.  During… Continue reading