Ranking Every ‘Scream’ Movie
Scream is the definitive horror film of the nineties, rounding out the century with a post-modern meta take on the...
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Ranking Every ‘Insidious’ Movie
James Wan came to define horror in the 2010s with his double hitter of Insidious and The Conjuring. While both...
Ranking Every ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Movie
A blind spot in my horror knowledge, until recently I’d never seen the 1997 horror film I Know What You...
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...
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...
