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‘Hellboy’ at 20 – Review
Hellboy (2004)Director: Guillermo del ToroScreenwriter: Guillermo del ToroStarring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Brian Steele, Ladislav Beran, Biddy Hodson, Corey Johnson, Kevin Trainor In 2004, over a decade out from his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro had directed two Spanish-language passion…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Review
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)Director: Adam WingardScreenwriters: Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, Jeremy SlaterStarring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns, Fala Chen Three years ago, Adam Wingard gave us big monsters beating each other up in Godzilla vs Kong, ending with a big smash fest in a neon-soaked Hong…
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’10 Things I Hate About You’ at 25 – Review
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)Director: Gil JungerScreenwriter: Karen McCullah, Kirsten SmithStarring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Andrew Keegan, Gabrielle Union, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt, Allison Janney, Larry Miller In Ten Things I Hate About You, the 1999 teen comedy based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, bad…
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‘The Matrix’ at 25 – Review
The Matrix (1999)Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly WachowskiScreenwriters: Lana Wachowski, Lilly WachowskiStarring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Matt Doran, Julian Arahanga, Anthony Ray Parker, Belinda McClory What is there to be write about The Matrix that hasn’t yet been written? The film is one of those rare…
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Kong: Skull Island (2017) Review
Kong: Skull Island (2017)Director: Jordan Vogt-RobertsScreenwriters: Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek ConnollyStarring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Jing Tian, Toby Kebell, Thomas Mann After Legendary Pictures came out of the blocks well with Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla in 2014, it was only a few months before they decided to…
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Review
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)Director: Gil KenanScreenwriters: Gil Kenan, Jason ReitmanStarring: Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Kumail Nanjiani, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Patton Oswalt, William Atherton, James Acaster And so the second legacy sequel for the 1984 classic spoof comedy horror hits the big screen. Once again we show…
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Immaculate (2024) Review
Immaculate (2024)Director: Michael MohanScreenwriter: Andrew LobelStarring: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Colangeli, Dora Romano, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi Horror films haven’t been great this year, at least not the ones that make it to general release on the big screen. With more on the way in the upcoming weeks and months,…
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Ghostbusters (2016) Review
Ghostbusters (2016)Director: Paul FeigScreenwriters: Katie Dippold, Paul FeigStarring: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey It’s a story that audiences know well: three gifted but unconventional geniuses and their available colleague, played by the hottest comedic actors of the time, take on New York City’s paranormal happenings. In this version…
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Review
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)Director: Francis Ford CoppolaScreenwriter: James V. HartStarring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, and Anthony Hopkins Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is one of the most popular and well-known works in English literature, a seminal gothic horror novel that dominated our conception of the vampire well into…
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Monster (2023) Review
Monster (2023) Director: Hirokazu Kore-edaScreenwriter: Yuji SakamotoStarring: Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Sōya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Yūko Tanaka, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Tsunoda, Shidō Nakamura After back-to-back projects made and set in France and South Korea (The Truth and Broker) arthouse favourite and Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to Japan to direct a fascinating story of unreliable…