Time travel in The Terminator films isn’t a clever scientific playground so much as a brutal narrative trap, where the past and future are locked in a relentless feedback loop. The series turns the idea of changing history into a grim paradox, suggesting that every attempt to escape fate may be the very thing that…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – Review
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon and his name was Michael Bay. Okay, maybe I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, Michael Bay is not the Anti-Christ, but he did cause Armageddon. It’s easy to take cheap shots…
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) – Review
Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise is a hard movie to classify, it’s not really a musical but it is chock full of music, it’s not a straight horror film because who the actual monster turns out to be is not who you’d expect and it’s darkly satiric, but what Phantom of the Paradise is…
Need for Speed (2014) – Review
The car chase has been a staple of Hollywood movies almost since the inception of cinema itself but they really took off when 1968’s Bullitt hit theatres and since then directors have tried to make their chases even more thrilling. Now back then this meant hiring incredibly gifted stunt drivers and coordinators to pull of…
Chef (2014) – Review
Jon Favreau Enlists a lot of celebrity friends to star in his latest Directorial outing called Chef, a Dramedy about a chef whose professional and personal life is in a rut. This film is basically Real Steel, but instead of Robots, we have Food Trucks, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.