Straw Dogs
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
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Ghost Rider
Stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Matt Long) looks like a young Tom Cruise but following 20 years of brutal motorcycle accidents he ends up with the face of Nicolas Cage. After […]
Video Nasty 9: The Burning
Five years after being burned in a prank gone wrong, a disfigured summer camp caretaker called Cropsy (Lou David) takes his revenge at a camp near an abandoned mine, thankfully […]
Alien vs. Predator
For anyone who saw Godzilla vs. Kong and thought, “I wish this was shorter,” cast your attention back to 2004 sci-fi/action crossover Alien vs. Predator. An archeological team is lured […]
Anna and the Apocalypse
An all-singing, all-shuffling ensemble deliver a pandemic in the key of George A. Romero in this 2017 zombie musical that one might call Song of the Dead. The singalong story […]
Speed 2: Cruise Control
No longer with her bus-bound boyfriend (Keanu Reeves), Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) is now dating another man (Jason Patric) who winds up in a similar situation but this time on […]
Terror Train
Terror Train! Terror! On a train! Not to be confused with Ptero Train where there’s a dinosaur on board. From the nation that brought us Black Christmas and My Bloody […]
Bloody Financial New Year
Happy Financial New Year’s Eve, perhaps the only holiday without a slasher movie named after it; potentially a gap in the market for a genre that covers everything from Bloody […]
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
This 2015 documentary celebrates Aardman’s 43rd anniversary – presumably aiming for its 40th but delayed by the claymation process. A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman is as delightful […]
Shadow
An uneasy peace treaty has left a prized city in the hands of the Yang, humiliating their rivals, the Pei, whose weak and impulsive king (Zheng Kai) is reluctant to […]
