Movies about “the end of the world” have been around almost as long as cinema itself, evolving alongside the industry into a wide range of tones and styles. Broadly speaking, the genre splits into two dominant strands. On one side are the serious, introspective films, such as On the Beach, which focus on the emotional…
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Roar (1981) – Review
Do you know what you get when you stick a family in a bungalow full of hundreds of big cats? Answer: You get a bloody big cat-astrophe.
Kill List (2011) – Review
Two hitmen walk into a church. Now that could be the set up to a terrible joke, or just a typical action scene from one of Hollywood’s many action movies, but when the priest in this film says, “Thank you” to the killer just before he takes a bullet to the brain, well that kind…
Absolutely Anything (2015) – Review
What would you do if you could do absolutely anything? This is the question writer/director and Monty Python alum Terry Jones posits in his movie Absolutely Anything, but what he really should have asked is, “Do I have anything funny or even remotely interesting to add to this age old premise?”
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) – Review
Today we pretty much take our computers for granted, but that was certainly not the case back in the sixties when the typical computer took up an entire floor of an office building.