The Bay (2013) – Review
Yawn! Here comes the latest entry to the tired ‘found footage’ horror canon. Another low budget, purportedly homemade, schlocky fright-fest canon, this one is directed by…hang on…Barry Levinson!?!?...
View ArticleHollywood Hard Bastards: Volume Two
Welcome, combat fans, to part two of my epic, foolhardy crusade! This week, Chuck Norris is icy-cool in Lone Wolf McQuade director Steve Carver’s stylish revenge thriller An Eye For An Eye (1981)....
View ArticleSide Effects (2013) – Review
After over twenty years of thrills, chills, sex, lies and videotape, Oscar-winning virtuoso director Steven Soderbergh is finally calling it a day, at least as far as the big screen is concerned....
View ArticleHollywood Hard Bastards: Volume Three
From Kindergarten Cop to Cop and a Half, the nineties were a time when Hard Bastards wanted to show there was more to their repertoire than snapping spines and giving henchmen lead poisoning. No, they...
View ArticleRed Dawn (2012) – Review
Each time a Chris Hemsworth movie is released, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Antipodean heartthrob has had a curious case of the Benjamin Buttons, seemingly growing younger and less experienced...
View ArticleHollywood Hard Bastards: Volume Four
If there’s one thing that allows a Hard Bastard to stand head and shoulders above mere mortals, it’s their rousing tenacity. One spartan who exemplifies this trait is this week’s first contender...
View ArticleHollywood Hard Bastards: Volume 5
Though any Hard Bastard worth his salt usually battles for truth and justice, these chiselled champions do occasionally get fed up with saving our butts and take a vacation over to the dark side. So,...
View ArticleHollywood Hard Bastards: Volume 6
Watching berserk action movies every day really makes you notice things – like the dire necessity for an evil henchman training school. Without fail, these useless dunderheads are horrible shots,...
View ArticleTop 5 Forgotten Marvel TV Pilots (Part 1): Generation X
Capitalising on the runaway success of 2012’s unstoppable super-powered spandex smorgasbord Avengers Assemble, Marvel Studios have recently wrapped filming on the Joss Whedon developed Agents of...
View ArticleTop 5 Forgotten Marvel TV Pilots (Part 2): Doctor Strange
Back in 1978, Marvel, fresh from the success of the Incredible Hulk and Amazing Spider-Man TV shows, was looking for its next hero to be immortalised on the small screen. Rather than go with one of...
View ArticleTop 5 Forgotten Marvel TV Pilots (Part 3): The Incredible Hulk Returns
3. The Incredible Hulk Returns By the mid-eighties, live-action superhero adventures were in a bit of a lull. The third and fourth cinematic outings of Superman, had been unmitigated disasters,...
View ArticleTop 5 Forgotten Marvel TV Pilots (Part 4): Power Pack
4. Power Pack Back in the early nineties, Marvel comics, fresh from the unholy disaster that was Albert Pyun’s Captain America, found themselves bandying about a lot of radical ideas for more...
View ArticleTop 5 Forgotten Marvel TV Pilots (Part 5): Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The incoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series marks Marvel’s long-awaited return to the small screen, seven years since the cancellation of Blade: The Series. Surprisingly, the hotly anticipated...
View ArticleA History of Video Game Movies: Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Ah, 1993. Tom Hanks was Sleepless in Seattle, Spielberg made dinosaurs roar again, while a young Will Smith was making us ‘Boom, Shake the Room!’ The year River Phoenix checked out was also a year of...
View ArticleA HISTORY OF VIDEOGAME MOVIES: DOUBLE DRAGON (1994)
In 1987, hardcore gamers flocked to arcades to pump all their change into a wildly addictive new videogame. This ‘beat ‘em up,’ one of the first successful examples of the genre, featured...
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