The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Tag Archives: 2009
Survival of the Dead
George A. Romero’s zombie saga takes an unexpectedly Irish turn in this final chapter they should have called St. Patrick’s Day of the Dead. In a first for the franchise, […]
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 […]
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 […]
On iPlayer: The Secret of Kells
Starting their tradition of losing Oscars to Pixar, Cartoon Saloon’s first feature concerns the creation of the Book of Kells – an Irish national treasure up there with Graham Linehan […]
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 […]
Terminator Salvation
2009 sequel Terminator Salvation is the only movie in the franchise that doesn’t feature time travel, unless you count travelling back to the year Sam Worthington appeared in some films. […]
Angels & Demons
A case of antimatter created by the Vatican is stolen from CERN in another case of antihistory so baffling it calls for a specialist. Unfortunately Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Year One
Do you ever worry your skillset would have been useless in prehistoric times? Not me. I’d have been a pun-ter gatherer. Judd Apatow does Life of Brian in this 2009 […]
Julie and Julia
Julie (Amy Adams) is sick and tired of her New York apartment, supportive husband (Chris Messina) and job helping 9/11 victims so decides to make every recipe from Mastering the […]
Screen Goblin 