Door Into Darkness: The Missing Link of Dario Argento’s Filmography
By 1973 Dario Argento had apparently sworn off giallo cinema. He’d popularised the genre in 1970 with The Bird with...
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The Dog Stars: Ridley Scott’s Apocalyptic Ode to Kindness
I still have a lot of love and patience for Ridley Scott. Perhaps more patience than he does himself, with...
Nostalgia Disguises Darkness in The End of Oak Street
On the surface The End of Oak Street appears to be another J.J. Abrams-style, kids-on-bikes, eighties nostalgia, sense-of-wonder, fantasy-encroaching-on-reality ode...
Will Alan Wake 3 be ‘Alice Wake’?
I’ve been replaying Alan Wake 2 in the run-up to the release of Control Resonant, to make sure I’m fully...
Jaws 2 is Good and I’m Tired of Pretending It’s Not
The sequels to Jaws get a bad rep. And, for two of them, it’s justified. There’s no hyperbole when describing...
The Best and Worst of Millennium Season 3
The millennium is closer than ever but the end of the world has never felt further away. While the second...
Batman: Caped Crusader Continues With Hit-and-Miss Villain Remixes And a Bland Hero in Season 2
I was expecting Batman: Caped Crusader to evolve in its second season. And while there have been changes, most of...
Ranking Every ‘The Purge’ Movie
£4.99 for all five The Purge movies on Amazon? Sure, I’ll go for that. I hadn’t seen any of the...
Disclosure Day Offers The Finale The X-Files Needed
I spent years imagining a third X-Files movie. Finally there’d be some pay off to the mythology, the meandering alien...
Apple’s Cape Fear Is Total Trash But An Absolute Blast
Spoiler warning for all 10 episodes of Apple’s Cape Fear. Apple’s Cape Fear series is caught between prestige television and...
