Stephen King on cocaine, a Hollywood budget, and the unshakable belief that everything is scarier when it explodes, that’s Maximum Overdrive in a nutshell. Based on his own short story, this is less a faithful adaptation and more a caffeinated fever dream on wheels, where trucks, vending machines, and even homicidal hair-dryer cords decide humanity’s…
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977) – Review
The late 70s certainly brought to cinemas a dearth of “eco-horror” movies because if it wasn’t ants ruining your picnic then it was our eight-legged friends crashing the party, and not only did 1977 witness the horrors of The Kingdom of the Spiders, starring the great William Shatner it also bore witness to a made-for-television…
The Land Before Time (1988) – Review
Up until Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth teamed up here the typical dinosaurs you’d find rampaging across cinema screens were treated as either life-threatening monsters or simply large dumb prehistoric animals that were best avoided less one gets stepped on, but in 1988 Amblin Entertainment gave the world its first dinosaur story that was from…
Batman (1989) – Review
If director Tim Burton can be credited for anything it would be in proving to Hollywood that big-budget superhero movies could, once again, be a successful venture, especially after Superman IV: The Quest for Peace practically drove the superhero movie into hibernation, but the resurgent popularity of Batman (thanks to the contemporary work of comic…