Reviews

Review: David Carradine In Low Budget Vampire Horror Film THE LAST SECT

As Halloween approaches most film distributors start releasing horror films so that people can scare the bejeezus out of themselves on October 31st. With this in mind I had the opportunity to watch The Last Sect starring David Carradine. This is a [...]

April 6, 2012

Review: Discover Who Killed Kennedy In Oliver Stone’s JFK

JFK may just be the quintessential Oliver Stone movie. It covers US politics, it has a sprawling storyline, it’s filled with paranoia and it’s high on kinetic energy. It may also be his best film. It is now difficult to remember how much of an [...]

April 5, 2012

Review: Colin Firth In Supernatural Drama GENOVA

Michael Winterbottom’s feature is a slow moving family drama with shades of the supernatural. Lecturer Joe (Colin Firth) relocates to the Italian city of Genova with his two daughters Kelly and Mary (Willa Holland Perla Haney-Jardine) following [...]

April 5, 2012

DVD Review: I AM NUMBER FOUR IS TERRIBLE

I Am Number Four is the latest teen-fiction novel to hit the big screen. It’s clearly aimed at the Twilight audience, but it also wants the male demographic, so there’s a bit of smooching and an abs-tastic male lead for the chicks, and some hot [...]

April 5, 2012

DVD Review: ANOTHER EARTH Is An Intelligent Science Fiction Film

Another Earth is a low budget science fiction film for people who don’t really like science fiction. It’s more low-fi than sci-fi, but it is a great little film with wonderful performances, which was unjustly overlooked during its cinema [...]

April 5, 2012

Review: Joan Collins & Donald Pleasance In THE MONSTER (I DON’T WANT TO BE BORN)

This bizarre 1975 British B-movie horror film stars Joan Collins and Donald Pleasance. Obviously made to cash in on the success of The Omen, The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, the film tells the tale of a retired stripper who after marrying a rich [...]

April 4, 2012

Review: Michael Fassbender In Director Neil Marshall’s CENTURION

Centurion follows the Roman army’s infamous Ninth Legion as it moves forward from Hadrian’s wall into Scotland to destroy the Picts, a violent and barbarous race that plagued the Romans throughout their time in Britain. The film opens with a [...]

April 4, 2012

DVD Review: Nicolas Cage’s SEASON OF THE WITCH Lacks Magic

Today many viewers go into a Nicolas Cage film with some trepidation, and to be fair, there is some just cause for this. Financial woes, and fanboy decision-making seem to be a major factor in the roles that Cage chooses to play these days (that and [...]

April 2, 2012