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Film Review: Coen Brothers ‘No Country For Old Men’

With their latest film, No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers have created a fantastic chimera. On the surface a crime thriller in the vein of their first effort, Blood Simple, the film is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You’d think from the trailer it’s a sort of western noir and while it has […]

Trailer: Teeth

Recently, a coworker forwarded me the below clip from YouTube. She then followed me into my office to make me watch it. What followed was perhaps one of the most disturbing things a man could imagine. I haven’t heard a lot of hype on this one yet, but am quite curious to […]

Film Review: Stephen King’s The Mist

Having read the Stephen King novella this movie is based on, and having bought and actually listened to the “3-D Sound” audio version of the story (hyped as a “miracle”, but actually just a bit of radio theater), I was well versed, and re-versed (Ha! “re-versed”) on the story Frank Darabont’s Stephen King’s The Mist […]

The Penultimate Ultimate Blade Runner

In the late seventies and early eighties three films appeared that influenced the look of science fiction for the next twenty years, The Road Warrior (or Mad Max 2 for you Aussies), Alien and Blade Runner. Espescially Blade Runner which influenced the look of every city you see in every fantasy or sci-fi film to […]

13 Lesser Known Horror Films

I originally set out to make a list of the 10 scariest movies, but when I finished, I decided there was no need. After all, do you really need me to tell you that The Exorcist, Night Of The Living Dead and Halloween are scary movies? The most frightening movies are well known, and generally […]

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