“Who are we if we can’t protect our children?” This is a question put forward by Emily Blunt’s character in director John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, which deals with a lone family trying to survive in world now populated with monsters, and it makes us wonder what we would do in a similar…
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Arcade (1993) – Review
“I never believed in Heaven, but I learned to believe in Hell when mom sent me there.” That is the first line of the 1993 sci-fi horror movie Arcade, as spoken by the lead protagonist, a teenage girl who had her life turned upside when her mother committed suicide and her father sank into a…
Ready Player One (2018) – Review
Based on Ernest Cline’s best-selling book of the same name Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One could honestly be marketed as Pop Culture References: The Movie, and to be honest if you’ve seen the trailer that shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but with one of the premier directors of this or any generation at the…
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) – Review
Who doesn’t love giant robots fighting giant monsters? In 2013 director Guillermo del Toro took that love and made a decent Kaiju movie out of it called Pacific Rim, but instead of your basic Saturday afternoon matinee fight fest the genre was mostly known he gave us a film with a unique aesthetic and the…
Tomb Raider (2018) – Review
Video game adaptations have always been a dodgy prospect, who can forget Van Damme’s Streetfighter or the horrible Mario Brothers movie (no matter how hard we try), but transforming the Tomb Raider game into a movie always seemed like an easy prospect to me, it’s basically sexy Indiana Jones so how can you screw that…