Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Alien Covenant is BAD and Ridley Scott should feel BAD.

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It's been over a year since I added something to my blog, much to the relief of some (I am sure). I have, basically, given up writing re...
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Friday, 29 April 2016

Dead By Dawn 2016: Men & Chicken (2015)

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In some ways, Men & Chicken may seem an odd choice to close a horror festival like Dead By Dawn. But it doesn't take long to del...

Dead By Dawn 2016: The Shorts.

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As there is only one movie left for me to cover in my look back over Dead By Dawn 2016 (I had to miss the last two features, with an impo...

Dead By Dawn 2016: She Who Must Burn (2015)

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I REALLY want to punch Shane Twerdum in the face. REALLY HARD. That's nothing personal against Twerdum, although I understand why that w...
Thursday, 28 April 2016

Dead By Dawn 2016: Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex (2015)

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Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex is another documentary about the special people who have made our special effects over the ye...

Dead By Dawn 2016: From Beyond (1986)

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This review first appeared, in a very similar form, on Flickfeast. Director Stuart Gordon reunites a few cast members from Re-Animator ...

Dead By Dawn 2016: We Go On (2016)

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After the madness of YellowBrickRoad , writer-directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton return with another impressive horror entry. While mor...

Dead By Dawn 2016: The Corpse Of Anna Fritz (2015)

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Anna Fritz (Alba Ribas) is a beautiful celebrity. And as this movie begins, you may not be surprised to know, she is dead. Her corpse is bei...

Dead By Dawn 2016: Antibirth (2016)

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I started off laughing at Antibirth . It wasn't exactly a hard film to find amusing. But then it keeps on going and I just found myself ...

Dead By Dawn 2016: Der Bunker (2015)

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Written and directed by Nikias Chryssos, Der Bunker is a strange, dark comedy that the helmsman himself introduced at Dead By Dawn 2016 by ...
Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Dead By Dawn 2016: Astraea (2015)

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Astraea is a post-apocalyptic movie that to sketch out the big picture by layering and providing extra detail to a small selection of main ...

Dead By Dawn 2016: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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Like it or not, The Hills Have Eyes is arguably almost single-handedly responsible for the "hillbilly cannibal" subgenre that has...

Dead By Dawn 2016: New Nightmare (1994)

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AKA Wes Craven's New Nightmare . The story, in brief: Freddy Krueger is an incarnation of an ancient evil, according to Wes Craven (pl...

Dead By Dawn 2016: Decay (2015)

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The more I think about Decay , the more I realise that I actually quite enjoyed it. That's mainly due to the central performance by Rob ...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Dead By Dawn 2016: Yr Ymadawiad AKA The Passing (2015)

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Essentially a three-hander featuring Mark Lewis Jones, Annes Elwy and Dyfan Dwyfor, The Passing (AKA Yr Ymadawiad) is a real slow-burner th...

Dead By Dawn 2016: Jacob's Ladder (1990)

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Jacob's Ladder is one of those movies that I missed when it first came out. And I didn't catch it until approximately fifteen years...

Dead By Dawn 2016: K-Shop (2015)

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K-Shop is an acerbic commentary on the binge drinking culture of Brits out for a big weekend. It's also interested in the power of minor...
Monday, 25 April 2016

Dead By Dawn 2016: Green Room (2015)

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AKA that film that features Patrick Stewart as the leader of a bunch of neo-Nazis. AKA "Do you feel lucky, punk?" Written and di...
Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)

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It's been hard to avoid the hype machine for Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (forthwith known as BvS for the purposes of this review...
Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Adam Sandler . . . . . . . in his defence.

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Okay, let me be clear on one thing here, right from the start. Adam Sandler is very probably far too busy enjoying his millions and millions...