Ever since Ridley Scott’s 1979 game-changing Alien hit our screens, which managed the hybrid of horror and sci-fi so successfully, the movie has spawned seven other films, with only one getting close to the brilliance of the original, the 1986 James Cameron direct sequel, Aliens. The rest may have been flawed but fascinating or down-right…
Tag: action
Borderlands
Going into Borderlands, I knew very little. I knew it was based on a video game, but that was about it. I have never played the game or even seen the game. I knew it was directed by Eli Roth, who is usually associated with very gory horrors and was responsible for the torture porn…
Deadpool & Wolverine
It almost seems a miracle that Deadpool 3 got to the screen. Originally announced when the Marvel character was still at 20th Century Fox, it was shelved during the deal with Disney and questions were thrown up as to whether the House of Mouse would allow such a sweary character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe….
Twisters
Let’s go back to 1996. The year that Twister hit the screens. A big, loud, visually impressive blockbuster that could easily be placed in the disaster movie category but seemed more to be out to amaze the audience with its effects, including the flying cow. Now we have Twisters, a stand-alone sequel that takes moments…
The Bikeriders
I rewatched Easy Rider the other night. The seminal biker movie from 1969 starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and a young Jack Nicholson is a disjointed, incidental film that doesn’t have a plot but has moments. Having watched Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, the director of Take Shelter, Mud and Loving seems to have decided that…
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die
It was 1996 when we were first introduced to Mike Lawrey and Marcus Burnett, the two Miami cops who consider themselves Bad Boys, even though they are just ordinary buddy cops that appear in most action thrillers like this. Except the dynamics were slightly more interesting: Mike, the single womanizer who drives around in a…
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
When you think of great directors, you may think of Hitchcock, Spielberg, Scorsese, and David Lean, to name a few. Not many mention the name George Miller on that list. Maybe it’s time we did because with his latest film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, he has definitely cemented his name as one of the…
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
When Charlton Heston uttered those immortal words, “Keep your stinking paws off me, you filthy apes!” back in 1968, who would have known that over 50 years later, those apes would still be famous with the audience enough to allow them a new movie, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. After Any Serkis’s Caesar…
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy was a throw-away TV series that filled the schedules in the 80s, with Lee Majors as a stuntman who moonlighted as a bounty hunter. It followed the same vein as The A-Team when you could turn your television on a Saturday evening and watch without thinking. Now we get the feature reboot…
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Filmmakers have been fascinated with giant monsters knocking seven bells out of each other ever since the 1933 King Kong and the 1954 Japanese Godzilla. The 21st saw the return to the big screen of these two titans with both Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island introducing the MonsterVerse and a hit-and-miss affair it has been,…
Dune: Part Two
There are not many films that can be classified as a masterpiece. The Godfather and Godfather Part II are masterpieces. So is Lawrence of Arabia. Many think the Lord of the Rings films fall into that category (controversially, I don’t). I will, however, add another movie to the list. Denis Villenuve’s long-awaited Dune: Part Two….
Madame Web
Another week, another superhero movie, part of the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe. Madame Web is one of the lesser known characters from Marvel and on evidence of the movie, I don;t think her popularity will rise. This is a mess of a film that seems to have a misleading trailer, a script that, in places, is…
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