When Die Hard first exploded onto screens in 1988 no one could have foreseen the impact that film would have on the action genre, and certainly never guess that it would create its own subgenre “Die Hard on a insert other location here” but the biggest game changer was having an “everyman” as the protagonist…
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – Review
For one who was not a fan of the first Mission Impossible by Brain De Palma – I’ll never forgive him for making Jim Phelps the villain – and less said of John Woo’s attempt the better, but I’ve really enjoyed these later installments.
“Live at Donington” by Iron Maiden (1992) A Retrospective Review
Most fans of Maiden probably know by now that Castle Donington is sacred ground for the band. The former race circuit in Derbyshire, UK has been used as a concert venue since the early 1980s, and while nowadays it’s inhabited by the annual Download Festival, a hard rock/heavy metal festival that began in 2003, it…
Warlock (1989) – Review
“He comes from the past to destroy the future.” This was the tagline for Steve Miner’s supernatural thriller Warlock and it owes a little to James Cameron’s The Terminator as it also has a hero chasing the villain through time and landing in modern-day California. The difference here being magic instead of science.
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) – Review
No one expects a SyFy original movie to be good, and back in 2013 when the first Sharknado aired it affirmed that fact, and then for some strange reason it we got Sharknado 2: The Second One which was also bad but gained a little love by embracing the goofiness of it all, and now…