Toolbox Murders (2004)
In an act of cultural cannibalism, Tobe Hooper remakes 1978 video nasty The Toolbox Murders which was itself a ripoff of Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Talk about scraping the […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Space Jam
When aliens invade earth, the Looney Tunes must beat them at basketball or face enslavement. They kidnap baseball player Michael Jordan to help them out. It’s a testament to this […]
Total Recall
Bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks a quick thrill with memory implants of a spy adventure on Mars. But when the procedure goes wrong, Quaid realises he’s actually […]
Thirst
As the pubs reopen, we turn to the South Korean story of a Catholic priest (Parasite‘s Song Kang-ho) who contracts a vampiric disease and starts drinking as though the blood […]
My Little Eye
There’s a horror sub-genre that exploits the latest game/gameshow fads, recent examples being last year’s Escape Room, the Apprentice-style Exam or the downright horrific Starter For 10. So while we […]
Ouija (2014)
From the company that brought you Transformers, Battleship and Jenga 2: The Brickening (it’s only a matter of time) comes Ouija, a horror movie based on the famous bit of wood. […]
Ran
Akira Kurosawa once again takes Shakespeare from The Globe to the other side of the globe in this adaptation of King Lear. As compared to Throne of Blood, Ran is […]
Rhinestone
Multi-Razzie-nominated Rhinestone belongs in the rare subcategory of films based on songs (in this case Rhinestone Cowboy; the country song, not the Madvillain track) alongside Love Me Tender, Yellow Submarine […]
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s is a 2019 documentary about the four-year window in which American ska music was popular in the 1990s. Taylor Morden’s love letter to […]
The Show Must Go On: The Queen+ Adam Lambert Story
The story of Queen has been told numerous times, but this is the first to cover the period after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, showing how the remaing band members […]
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