John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE
“The world needs a wake up call…we’re gonna phone it in.” – Gilbert John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi/thriller THEY LIVE is a perfect movie to...
Category: Reviews
The Straight Story
Director David Lynch is widely known for his surreal thrillers like Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive but in 1999 he made a...
John Woo’s Better Tomorrow Trilogy
When you think of Hong Kong movies of times past, John Woo‘s bullet opera classics feature rather prominently. Aside from Shaw Brothers martial arts...
FURIOUS FIGHTERS: Rocky IV
It’s Boxing Day! Well, at least in Europe it is. Time to open up the rest of your Christmas presents (and/or box up goods...
FURIOUS XMAS CLASSICS: Scrooged
In my review for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service I stated that on December 25th I’d be watching two Christmas movies back-to-back: Scrooged and...
MERRY XMAS 007: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
It’s Christmas time again! And it’s also another time of the year that we have to witness the debate about whether Die Hard should...
Better Watch Out
It will be scary this Christmas … If you don’t like Christmas, you can always watch a horror movie. There are quite a few...
The Lift vs Down
The latest releases from cult home video label Blue Underground is a pair of films made by the same director, Dick Maas (Amsterdamned). One...
CRIMEWATCH: The Don is Dead
Under the radar but blessed with an A-list cast as well as behind-the-scenes creative personnel, The Don is Dead is a mafia story heavily...
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Stendhal Syndrome is a 1996 psychological thriller directed by Dario Argento (Opera, Suspiria) and starring his daughter, Asia Argento (Land of the Dead). Below...
