Whilst I'm sure I've seen at least *one* of the original Romero Living Dead movies, I couldn't remember which (and maybe I'm wrong!). So it felt like time to explore where it all started and work methodically through. However pressing play on Amazon Prime, I was shocked to see what looked like a colourised film. No warning, no option. I knew this was black & white so a web search later and I learnt about how they lost copyright on the…

"ooh what's this? An early 80s horror movie with a young Sam Neill? This looks like fun!"...

...it was not fun. In fact I was completely unprepared for the brutal onslaught of emotional agony that was unleashed upon me.

To start with, in the opening minutes I was thinking "Wait... Sam Neill is a good actor, why is he being so over the top and melodramatic here?" He was emotional voicing that was almost operatic in style. "This is weird…

Bogonia was a fun movie to watch, though predictable in everything except perhaps the extremities; was a great example of showing the journey whilst riding a line of 'will they / won't they'.

This was possibly the best performance I've seen from Emma Stone, and likewise Jesse Plemons, who has popped up in more and more things across my screens to become quite a familiar face. He is most excellent at playing unhinged and troubled people.

Not a perfect script,…

For a fun Studio Ghibli adventure for the whole family, you'd be well suited to never watch this fucking movie.

Talk about a movie making you feel things. This is brutal. Absolutely fucking brutal. And absolutely fucking heart breaking. And fuck war and the stupid control freak fucks who start them.

The animation here is just top tier Ghibli, notably transparency effects of fire's flame and water. Of course the character details were exquisite - especially Setsuko who had so…

Brazil was another one of those movies I heard about a lot in my teens; Terry Gilliam's whacky crazy film! But despite being a Python fan, I wasn't really paying attention to Gilliam's movies until 12 Monkeys.

Not really knowing what this was about, it was delightful to see a clear riff on 1984 and Big Brother, with a striking visual design that merges antique with industrial with retro-future. Combined with extreme camera angles it makes everything just *odd*. I've…

Fifteen years after 1981’s Escape From New York, film-making has come a long way. So why not do a sequel with effectively the identically same plot. Why do a remake when you can call it a sequel, but still have another go at the original brief? And then you decide to dial it all up to eleven. If this was Bond, Escape From New York would be Goldfinger to Escape from L.A.’s Moonraker.

From the little references, such as the…