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...
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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...
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...
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...
In An Exceptional Year For Horror, Let’s Not Forget The Simple, Violent Delights of Primate
It’s been a fantastic year for horror movies, and we’re still a long way off from October. Films like Obsession...
Ranking Every ‘The Omen’ Movie
It’s been 50 years since the release of The Omen, one of the best horror films of the 1970s, and...
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer Remains A Shocking And Necessary Piece Of The Twin Peaks Puzzle
The story goes that a 12-year-old Jennifer Lynch was picked up from school one day by her father, the filmmaker...
Ghosts of Mars: 25 Years of John Carpenter’s Infamously (And Intentionally?) Awful Film
If there’s one complaint about movies I hate more than any other it’s “oh, they just didn’t care. They weren’t...
Batman: Revolution Has An Excellent Riddler But Is Otherwise A Lame Continuation Of Burton’s Batman
The issue with a novel sequel to Tim Burton’s Batman is that the music and the visuals are what make...
