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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Luc, Luc, be honest: this is a first draft, right? Because it feels an awful lot like that. Not that I’m complaining: there is something…
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What a gift it is for an actor to possess truly corrupt features – shifty eyes, a built-in sneer, the jowls hanging heavy with bitter…
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As we approach 2017, movie lovers in search of guidance could do worse than take in this Roger Corman ’62 Shatner fest, a black and…
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Alien 3, the most underrated of underrated SciFi movies, is probably where the Alien franchise should have drawn to a close. Script problems, David Fincher’s…
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Google John Carpenter’s They Live and worrying indications of a remake surface. You can understand why someone might think about it. The ’10s’ (or whatever)…
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With a creepy-crawly themed column to write for The Engineer, but brain drained of power, watching a trashy bug movie too easily became justified as…
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A reader recently compared Steeple to 1995’s Ghost in the Shell, Mamuro Oshii’s hugely popular manga adaptation – and this prompted an insomniac 1am viewing, with…
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Just time to post a quick update after a pleasantly busy October. First, I don’t think I posted a link to my Gollancz Blog review of…
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