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Review: Kick-Ass Is Just That
It’s a coming age with a super, not so super twist. A film that perfectly captures the teenage fantasy alongside the cruel reality of...


Review: Big Trouble In Little China Is The Right Kind Of Weird
John Carpenter, one of the masters of horror and director of such excellent films as The Thing and Halloween, did at one point create one...


Review: Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark Is The Definitive Adventure
Every now and again there comes a movie that, through a one in a million combination of casting, writing, directing, indeed everything...


Review: Rampage Is Big, Dumb, And Full Of Fun
When I heard that Rampage, an arcade beat 'em up about giant monsters destroying a city, was getting the movie treatment I was thoroughly...


Review: Pacific Rim Proves That Quality Comes In Different Forms
From the director of some of the best, serious movies around, come the biggest, dumbest, flashiest and most enjoyable film in years....


Review: Tomb Raider (2018) Is Mostly Watchable, If Somewhat Unnecessary
Imagine if you took Indiana Jones and sucked all the fun out. Then you'd have Tomb Raider. 7 years after her fathers death, Lara Croft...


Review: Tomb Raider (2001) Is The Indiana Jones Of The Early 2000s
Every half decade has a select few tropes that all the big action movies take on. Shaky cam, long takes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they can...


Review: 12 Strong Is 2018s 13 Hours
There's something about cavalry charges and cinema that just works. In the days following the September 11 attacks, Captain Mitch Nelson...


Review: Death Wish (2018) A More Visceral Remake Of A Far Simpler Film
1974's Death Wish has endured for two reasons. The badass that is Charles Bronson, and the raw simplicity of it all. Bruce Willis and Eli...


Review: Death Wish V: The Face Of Death Is All Talk And No Action
There are some people who just shouldn't have a family. An ageing Paul Kersey, played by an equally old Charles Bronson has, yet again,...
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