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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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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There’s not a hell of a lot that hasn’t already been said about John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog. We might wax…
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Alita has lots of features to recommend her. James Cameron’s involvement is not chief among them. Having clutched onto the project for decades, Jimmy suddenly…
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Some claim Starman as the misunderstood gem in John Carpenter’s back catalogue. There really should be too much good there for it to be bad:…
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Halloween is the Carpenter movie I never got. I always suspected I was missing something. Close friends set their horror watches by it. But it…
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