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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A few excuses are made for the condition of Ghosts of Mars: the studio insisted on Ice Cube; evil Hollywood suits prevented Carpenter making his…
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Sad, in a way, that it’s all just…sort of OK. Workmanlike. Not a disaster, nothing to be ashamed of. We leave A, reach B and…
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So much is written about Escape From New York already, it’s hard to know how to come at it. It’s harder still for me, because…
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Get on with it, you think, then: oh God, just stop. Only those intent on reviewing every single John Carpenter feature persevere. There is no…
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I used the pandemic bank holiday to take in Big Trouble in Little China (86), a genre-splicing, freewheeling cult favourite, and the more unloved Prince…
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