Shin Godzilla
The Japanese government is thrown into a tailspin when Godzilla emerges from the ocean depths and starts trampling Tokyo, which had presumably only just been rebuilt from the last time […]
Tag Archives: 2010s
A Netflix for Christmas
Despite having once co-created a Hallmark movie generator, I had never actually seen one until this ill-advised double-bill – and I possibly still haven’t as the provenance of these festive […]
Get Out
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family and experiences the worst cigarette detox this side of Shane in Survivor 12. Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut proves he’s the […]
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
This review is the result of completing a Twilight marathon, which is a lot like competing in a real marathon except it’s much more important to drink. My focus is […]
Evil Dead (2013)
Apparently forgetting he already remade The Evil Dead to perfection in Evil Dead II, Sam Raimi flogs the undead horse in this humourless husk from 2013. In Fede Álvarez‘s directorial […]
13 Assassins
It is testament to the grandeur of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai that even its remakes get remakes (there are two Magnificent Sevens and two 13 Assassins) while the original title […]
Saint Maud
A disturbed carer (Morfydd Clark) sets out to save her dying patient’s (Jennifer Ehle) soul in the British horror flick they should have called Evil Med. Not so much a […]
First Love
Takashi Miike’s 2019 thriller sees a boxer (Masataka Kubota) rescue a call girl (Sakurako Konishi) from murderous gangsters. Let’s call it 13 Assassin’s Creed. For his 103rd picture, the insanely […]
Toolbox Murders 2
This aborted sequel to Tobe Hooper’s Toolbox Murders was shut down when it turned out the producers never actually had the rights to the property. It was completed as a […]
Fantastic Fungi
Fungi are the most ubiquitous but among the least widely-understood life forms on our planet. Neither plant nor animal, they are in our bodies and beneath our feet, connecting forests […]
Screen Goblin 