Tag: film review
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Film Review – Kong: Skull Island
Orson Welles once memorably commented that films should be made with innocence (something we rarely see now, sadly – we live in a time when films are made by marketing committees!) and Kong: Skull Island is a fine example of a film made for the right reasons. It has been described as a reboot of…
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The Girl With All The Gifts – film review
A few years ago, when Andy Black and I wrote The Dead Walk (www.noirpublishing.co.uk), we focussed on the quality zombie films because there are so many bad films that add nothing whatsoever to the genre, and indeed by their sheer generic quality serve only to harm the genre. Time has proved our approach the correct…
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Horror movie review: The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring was a pleasant surprise when it was released, shining like a diamond amongst endless remakes and found-footage films (how long before someone remakes The Blair Witch Project? No, please don’t, that would be truly horrible in all the worse ways!). For The Conjuring was a well-written, well-directed, well-acted film, with good production values,…
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Terminator Genisys (film review)
I really wanted to like this film. I had a lot of good will towards it. The previous Terminator films are all at least decent, and in two cases, stone-cold classics. Terminator: Salvation was very enjoyable and opened up the franchise in a new and feasible direction while still being faithful to its own mythology.…