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Sharp-fisted fella Prequels, eh? We all know that The Godfather Part II (1974) by and large started the ball rolling, with its look at the early life of Brando’s Vito Corleone, as played by Robert De Niro in the second film. However, that is one of the best films ever made (it was the first and [...] strong>Bay rocks? Picture the scene. The remains of a particularly spicy fajita meal on the table, a cold beer, and an unwillingness to change channels. OK, apart from the fajitas, this is pretty much every evening for me. Last night, however, was different. I had seen the trailers on the telly for the past week, and [...] Now then – John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), itself a remake of the Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks/Orson Welles (?) 1951 classic, The Thing From Another World (both of which are adaptations of John W.Campbell’s original short story, Who Goes There?) is perhaps the finest horror-science fiction film ever made. Carpenter’s movie, although it fared badly [...] Not boxing clever It’s an interesting enough idea – The Box (2009) by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko (2001), adapted by the director from the Richard Matheson short story Button, Button) has a provocative talking point at its core – would you push a button that you knew would kill a complete stranger somewhere, if the prize [...] Spaced out Director Christian Alvart, whose other film released this year was the competent horror-thriller Case 39 with Renee Zellweger, unfortunately seems out of his depth when it comes to delivering on writer Travis Milloy’s intriguing premise here, which is at its best at the film’s beginning and end. We’re in the year 2174, and Earth [...] Radio Armageddon Way back in 1968, George A. Romero’s enormously influential horror Night of the Living Dead was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences. Its deceptively simple set-up – a group of survivors barricade themselves away from apocalyptic events, the situation deteriorates as what’s outside threatens to get in – has been used so often since (to [...] Just a ‘prawn’ in their game… Director Neill Blomkamp couldn’t have made a better first impression with his debut feature. Set in modern-day Johannesburg, South Africa, but in reality depicting events taking place ‘the day after tomorrow’, Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell’s screenplay depicts an ethnic-minority crisis with a twist – the inhabitants of the so-called District [...] A thing of darkness… Well, this week will provide a rare chance for certain upper-echelon critics to admit they got it wrong at the time, as they tend to do (get it wrong, that is, not own up and retract) with all the very best horror (Peeping Tom (1960), anyone?) – in a master stroke, presumably [...] Game on Jeremy Slater is pleased to discover a ‘movie of a video game’ that doesn’t insult the intelligence… Most grown-ups and many moviegoers would shy away, these days, from films that appear to be based on PC games, and who can blame them? The sub-genre has produced some of the worst films ever, outdoing the lousiest [...] [photopress:Terminator.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Terminator terminus Ho, hum. The Terminator franchise takes this reviewer as far back as his early teens, when James Cameron’s dark, moody and genuinely thrilling first installment confirmed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s megastar status in 1984. It was followed, in 1991, by Cameron’s equally good sequel, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, then by Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise [...] |
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