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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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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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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Memoirs is not a movie that makes it into many John Carpenter retrospectives. It has none of the gory tension of his greatest work, and came…
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In the Mouth of Madness is a gateway to Sam Neil, and for that the film instantly wins praise. Many, of course, discovered the Kiwi…
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Yes, there is a lot of silly fun on display in the 1996 John Carpenter Snake-fest, Al Leong is still merrily energising the background, and…
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John Carpenter’s Vampires is a mess, but like other films in his later work, there’s a frustrating sense that things could have been better, with…
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