Bingewatching the Alien franchise
Reading time: 6 minutes *Minor spoilers* In honour of Alien’s 40th anniversary, I decided to watch the entire franchise in one long marathon, in …
Requiem for a Dream: nineteen years later
Reading time: 1 minute First of all, there are a lot of films that I love. The kind of films I could talk about …
2018 in film and a look ahead to 2019
Reading time: 5 minutes Film stars and icons are household names the world over – I’d find it very difficult to believe that even Amish …
Retro review: Visions of Sugar Plums
Reading time: 3 minutes Christmas season may be over, but it’s still haunting my dreams. Not typically the season you associate with frights …
Die Hard: a blockbuster full of ‘macho assholes’
Reading time: 4 minutes The Die Hard debate: is it a Christmas film? Frankly, who cares? You can watch Bruce Willis and a gang …
Retro review: revisiting Band of Brothers
Reading time: 5 minutes *Spoiler-free* “You ever notice with stories like that, everyone says that they heard it from someone who was there?” …
Cannon Films’ unintentional homage to the work of Jack ‘The King’ Kirby
Reading time: 4 minutes In the history of the He-Man franchise, from the original cycle of storytelling and toy sales, there’s never been a …
Winona Ryder is the Halloween Queen
Reading time: 1 minute Synonymous with the spooky celebration, Winona Ryder’s weird and wonderful roles over the years still rank highly as some of …