Reviews
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[REVIEW] Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
Runtime: 107 Mins Rated: R What To Expect: Too much focus on early and unremarkable elements of Cannon history, but some Norris and Bronson nonetheless...
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[REVIEW] American Sniper Blu-Ray
Runtime: 185 mins total Rated: R What To Expect: Expect to buy this out the gate if you intended to, as opposed to waiting for...
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[REVIEW] Razorback (1984)
Runtime: 95 mins Rated: R What To Expect: Ozploitation classic worth seeing despite its flaws Razorback can best be described as Jaws in an Australian outback setting...
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[REVIEW] Resident Evil Retribution (2012)
Runtime: 96 Mins Rated: R What To Expect: Another Paul W.S. Anderson bowel movement Malaria. Ebola. Gang rape. These are the experiences I’d rather endure...
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[REVIEW] Slow West (2015)
Runtime: 83 mins Rated: R What To Expect: Epic scenery, violent and black humour Years ago I think this is a film John Wayne would’ve...
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[REVIEW] Pound Of Flesh (2015)
Runtime: 105 Mins Rated: R What To Expect: Body doubles, misery… I wanted to like this movie. Maybe it was the premise – man goes...
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[REVIEW] Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Two action movies have stuck out for me over the past five years. The first was The Raid, then last year’s John Wick, those to...
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[REVIEW] Mad Max 2 (1981)
Runtime: 90 mins Rated: R What To Expect: A full-blown masterpiece that hasn’t dated in the slightest. It is indeed rare to behold a sequel...
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[REVIEW] Tremors 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray
You have to wonder sometimes why a movie that is clearly a cult classic could have a ’25th Anniversary’ Blu-Ray release, where practically no-one is...
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[REVIEW] Without Warning (1980)
Something of an obscurity here – I’d never seen or heard of this flick from 1980 until recently. I was watching a documentary about the...
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GUEST COLUMN: Fuego (2014) Review
Starring: Aida Folch, Jose Coronado, Leyre Berrocal Having smaller budgets than most Hollywood output, Spanish films tend to focus more on the story, which is...
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[REVIEW] Maggie (2015)
So this is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s smaller companion piece to his bigger effort this year (Terminator: Genisys). Since his return to cinema, he’s been kinda pushing...
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[REVIEW] Taken 3 (2015) Unrated Blu-Ray
At the start of the year Liam Neeson rounded off his Taken trilogy with Taken 3. Most were hoping for something superior to the weak...
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[REVIEW] The Americans: Season 3 (2015)
It seems nowadays that any espionage show on television is always focused on some extremist nutjob from some dead patch of land somewhere in the...
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[REVIEW] Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
I don’t remember much about the original, other than it being possibly mildly serviceable, truth be told I was talking with someone throughout the whole...
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[REVIEW] MacGruber (2010) Is Still Funny As Hell
Runtime: 90 mins Rated: R What To Expect: To laugh so hard you’ll have tears coming out of your eyes. Saturday Night Live features are distinctly hit-and-miss, as...
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[REVIEW] Hyena (2015)
Starring: Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell and MyAnna Buring Coke snorting detectives, the grim realities of human trafficking, a genuinely horrific stabbing, graphic scenes...
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[REVIEW] The Boondock Saints (1999)
Runtime: 108 mins Rated: R What To Expect: A cult classic that has endured for a reason. Shot in a month on a scant $6 million...
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[REVIEW] Rambo: First Blood Part II (SEGA Master System)
In theory it ought to be possible to make a pretty decent game based on the Rambo series. I didn’t think Sega’s 2008 arcade rail...
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[REVIEW] The Mercenary: Absolution (2015)
After 17 years of DTV slop, you begin to notice that there are three different types of movie Steven Seagal makes these days. The first and...
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[REVIEW] The Long Good Friday (1980) Remastered Blu-Ray
Runtime: 5.5 hours (approx total) Rated: R What To Expect: A salutation of the best of British gangster thrillers Click here to buy on The...
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[REVIEW] Men of War (1994)
Runtime: 103 Mins Rated: R What To Expect: An underrated actioner that deserves your attention. Boiled down to its basic narrative constituents, Men of War is The Dirty Dozen meets Dances with...
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[REVIEW] Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Runtime: 122 Mins Rated: PG-13 What To Expect: A wholesome, fun sci-fi fantasy adventure It’s undeniable that 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy represents Marvel Studio’s most left-field production to date....
