Battle Royale
With Junior Eurovision currently in full swing, our attention inevitably turns to another group of competitive children with blood on their hands. A high school class are sent to a […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
Tattoo (2002)
Tattoo is a German thriller from 2002, not to be confused with the 1981 American movie Tattoo or the Russian band t.A.T.u. This film has perhaps the most ridiculous opening […]
Sorority Row
Sorority Row joined a slew of slasher remakes circa 2009 to form whatever’s the opposite of a genre revival. Let’s call it the noughties slasher burial. A mangled mixer of […]
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
This week sees the release of a new Dungeons & Dragons film, but not wanting to be caught off guard, we roll back to the original D&D movie from 2000. […]
Dog Soldiers
Neil Marshall (The Descent) marked his territory with this 2002 tail of soldiers lured into the woods by a pack of werewolves. Let’s call it The Dog-Scent. Maybe more so […]
Howl’s Moving Castle
A confession: I have never really “got” Howl’s Moving Castle, and my love of Studio Ghibli prevented me from reviewing it even after two watches (subbed and dubbed). Having now […]
The Descent
Six friends (Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, MyAnna Buring, Saskia Mulder, Alex Reid and Nora-Jane Noone) find themselves at the end of their tether when a spelunking holiday takes a rappellent turn. […]
Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Tomb Raider and Expendables 2 director Simon West indulges his love of women running in tank tops and dredging up relics in this 2006 remake. This redundant rehash stretches the […]
Twilight
It hardly seems worth recapping the story of the world’s second-most famous glitter-based paedophile (Robert Pattinson). What is surprising is how little happens in the course of this two-hour fantasy […]
Screen Goblin 