Both these movies have extinction events at the core of their worldbuilding. That’s fitting, as both helped exterminate the careers of those involved – the…
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Tony Scott’s 1986 Top Gun was a fantasy, at least in part. Its ending imagined that US Navy pilots could shoot down Soviet MiGs without…
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It’s strange. You feel your cultural horizons are too narrow, set out to expand them – and end up back with your old favourites. So…
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Many films are bloody awful. Many are bloody awful in ways that are simply too tedious to consider. But Space Truckers…there is something mysterious about…
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Nemesis is a bad film, yet any teenaged boy of the 1990s would surely have savoured its many strange flavours. Director Albert Pyun makes excellent…
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Get Back is a mighty piece of work by Peter Jackson. He does everything right. He lets the ’69 Beatles speak for themselves. We take…
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We middle aged folk are sadly incapable of loving a new film with the intensity we did as teenagers. Our brains were different then, grey…
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James Bond has been in love before. And this inversion of OHMSS is notionally brave; deciding to riff off arguably the most maligned movie In…
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2011’s remake of The Thing tries hard to live up to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic… and ends up impersonating the 1951 original. The Thing has…
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