Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
There is very little blood in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We used to say “surprisingly little,” but every horror fan worth their salt knows that the movie that gave us...
Review: Blind Ambition (2022)
It feels a little cheap to compare this documentary with the old John Candy joint Cool Runnings—if nothing else, because this is about Zimbabwean sommeliers, not Jamaican bobsledders—but it’s difficult to...
Spotlight on Liam Neeson: The Sullen Star’s Long Career of Ass-Kicking
It is a truth universally accepted that Liam Neeson started doing action movies late in his career, with his most notable foray into the genre being 2008’s Taken. That’s not exactly the case, though—plent...
Retrospective: 30 Years and a New Media Landscape Later, We’re All Living in Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World has turned 30! That makes me feel indescribably old. I loooooved Wayne’s World back in the day. It was the first movie I saw three times in the cinema, and there wasn’t even a cine...
Review: Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
Some men are very, very concerned about length. Length of fight scenes, I mean—get your mind out of the gutter. For some—and I often number myself among them, so no shade intended—the ratio of carnage to runni...
Review: The Batman (2022)
Much as when Spider-Man finally turned up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Matt Reeves’ The Batman smartly eschews retreading the caped crusader’s origin story, assuming correctly that after 80 years, almost ...
Review: Troppo (2022)
In this adaptation of Candice Fox’s novel Crimson Lake, if the crocs don’t get you the shadowy conspiracy will. Any series that opens with a suicide-by-crocodile is surely worthy of your attention—and that’s e...
Review: The 355 (2022)
When an operation to buy an advanced cyberweapon from a rogue Colombian DNI agent, Luis Rojas (Édgar Ramírez), goes awry, CIA agent Nick Fowler (Sebastian Stan) is killed in action. Keen for revenge and to get...
Early Monday Morning, on the Pre-Gym Coffee
I wanted to get up early and get to the gym due to a couple of slack weeks. I've had a niggling sore throat for a while now. Not Covid, but enough to make me stay close to home and pull out of a few screenings...
Looking Back at the Butterfly Effect
Last week marked the 18th anniversary of The Butterfly Effect. Starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart, the high concept thriller hit cinemas on January 23, 2004, which means its now of the age of cons...