Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has all the necessary ingredients for a sequel to completely suck. It’s years after the franchise was in the limelight, sparking talks of the film being merely a cashgrab or nostalgia project for those involved. It’s repeating the formulas and tropes that fans […]
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Sam Raimi’s Fantastic and Dynamic Western: The Quick and the Dead (1995)
I find myself becoming more intrigued by Sam Raimi the older I get. I’m not yet a complete connoisseur as I’m still missing the viewing of some of his mid-period work, but I have seen all his Evil Dead films and every film he’s directed this side of 2000. He strikes […]
Doctor Who Spin-Off, Class (2016), Deserves More Love, and Here’s Why
SPOILERS AHEAD The extended universe of Doctor Who has not been present on-screen since way back in 2011. In the initial burst of popularity the revival received in the 2000s, showrunner Russell T. Davies capitalised on this success by offering up two spin-off shows: the kid-friendly Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring […]
Boyhood (2014) Epic Achievement that Somehow lacks a Definitive Direction (Review)
I think Boyhood will go down in my viewing history as one of these films that I appreciate more than I actually like. While it is ultimately a straightforward coming-of-age film, it is certainly ambitious, as sporadically filming a group of actors over the course of twelve years and making […]
Raised By Wolves: What Wolfblood Means To Me
If you asked me to choose one TV show and one film that inspired me growing up, I would probably respond with Doctor Who and Coraline. I am a massive fan of both, and although they are vastly different from one another, they made their individual impact on me when […]
The Sisters Brothers (2018) A Great Characterful Western for Fans New & Old (Review
Westerns are a genre that has so far eluded me. I have virtually no experience with the genre as a whole, apart from the odd clip from Clint Eastwood films. On TV, however, I have a little more knowledge. Two examples spring to mind, the Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the […]
Lockwood & Co – Episodes 1-3 Advance Review
This website has given me a chance to discuss a lot of films and TV, but I’ve never had the chance to watch something entirely new before it comes out. That changes today, as I recently got a chance to watch the new Netflix series Lockwood & Co before its […]
Wendell & Wild (2022) Exploration of dark & morbid concepts in suitably strange and morbid stop-motion (Review)
2023 is upon us, and I’m sure many of you have already taken every chance you can to watch all the new releases. Me? I’m still stuck in 2022, catching up on an endless string of films that slipped me by. One of those is a big one though, and […]
2022 Roundup
The end of 2022 is upon us, and December is often seen as a time to reflect on all that has happened in the year, and what an insane twelve months we have just had, with political chaos galore, our first change in monarch since 1952, and many global disputes […]
Fall (2022) Emotionally contrived with White-Knuckle Thrills (Review)
Today the subject on the table is Fall, a tense and self-contained survival thriller directed by Scott Mann, which sees an ex-climber named Becky in a depressive episode after her husband dies in a climbing accident. In an effort to raise her spirits, her friend Hunter suggests that they both […]