The Complete Dr Phibes brings together my two favourite Vincent Price movies – since you can’t have one without the other, and makes for a fantastic release following the recent Theatre of Blood: Special Edition. …
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The Complete Dr Phibes brings together my two favourite Vincent Price movies – since you can’t have one without the other, and makes for a fantastic release following the recent Theatre of Blood: Special Edition. …
Continue readingOculus begins with a spooky mirror being auctioned off by Kaylie Russell (Karen Gillan), the premise being that it has some sort of supernatural powers but that no buyer ever has knowledge of its capability …
Continue readingRoboCop is one of the most iconic action films of all-time, showing off the capitalist greed of the 1980s whilst containing some of the most violent scenes committed to film at the time, not least …
Continue readingGravity is only the second-ever film I’ve gone to see twice at the cinema on its initial run. The other one was… erm… Die Hard 2, but hey, back in 1990 you weren’t ever going …
Continue readingDallas Buyers Club doesn’t beat about the bush when it comes to introducing the protagonist. Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is a sexist, homophobic mysoginist and when we first see him, having sex with with a …
Continue readingNot Another Happy Ending is Karen Gillan‘s first movie since finishing Doctor Who, which brought her to the fore as Amy Pond. Here, she plays struggling author Jane Lockhart, and finally, after squillions of rejection …
Continue readingGrudge Match has been described as “Rocky Balboa vs Raging Bull – 30 Years Later”, and it sums it up pretty well as it starts with dodgy CGI applied to their faces in flashback scenes …
Continue readingThe World’s End saw something that rang true about Simon Pegg‘s character, Gary King, in the last of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school …
Continue readingThree Colours Blue is the first in the Three Colours Trilogy, the film series from director Krzysztof Kieslowski, themed, retrospectively, on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Kieslowski is the man behind …
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