The Ward (2010)

Ok, right off the bat…I LOVE a good chunk of John Carpenters filmography. I mean really, Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988) and In the Mouth of Madness (1994) are ALL kick ass genre movies. Scattered in amongst […]

Red Dawn (2012)

Jesus fuckin Christ why?!!! Why did this idiotic remake need to be brought into existence?! The original Red Dawn (1984) holds a special place in my heart because it’s a terrific snap-shot into the era that it represents, that being the paranoid Republican-controlled Cold War era of the early to mid 1980s. I remember seeing […]

Life of Pi (2012)

When this film was in its initial release, I freely admit to being less than thrilled about its existence. I read the book, by Canadian author Yann Martel, a few years ago and I confess that l read it simply to see what all the hoopla was about. Overall, I wasn’t terribly impressed. I felt […]

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

James Camerons ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow has once again stepped up to plate, and knocked it outta the damn park. This woman is incredibly talented behind the camera and she seems to be on the verge of a cinematic winning streak, with this film following hot on the heels of The Hurt Locker (2008). With regards […]

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

I’ve been familiar with this particular title for a good number of years but it always just stayed in the peripherals of the horror/serial killer genre for me. In 1996, it received a rather prominent ‘shout-out’ in Scream and as a result, I mentally ‘bookmarked’ it for an eventual viewing. Having now seen this strange […]

Killing Them Softly (2012)

Oh, I SO wanted to like this flick. When I first got wind of Brad Pitt re-teaming with the director of (the under-seen) The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007) for a modern day crime movie, I was really intrigued. When it finally hit, the word-of-mouth was decidedly mixed. Usually my […]

Django Unchained (2012)

I love Quentin Tarantino movies. Always have. Of course, that ‘love’ isn’t level across the board, some of his films have been better than others. Inglourious Basterds (2009) was an interesting and daring exercise in ‘period’ film-making, especially for Tarantino, but it just didn’t quite come together as I had originally hoped (looking at YOU, […]

Dredd (2012)

All that I really knew about the Judge Dredd character was that he was originally the focus of a satirical and nihilistic British comic book series and then, in 1995, was turned into an abysmal, piece of shit Stallone ‘vehicle’ that apparently completely raped the tone and character of Judge Dredd. After that, the possibility […]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Well, that dwarf-looking Kiwi Peter Jackson has returned to his beloved Middle Earth, this time to grace us with an ambitious telling of Tolkiens most accessible work. When I heard that they were planning to split The Hobbit into two parts, I thought that that seemed fair and was probably the smart way to go. […]

Total Recall (2012)

Not perfect…but perfectly acceptable. I understand that there’s a die-hard group of Arnie/Verhoeven enthusiasts out there who have no qualms with out-rightly decrying this remake, and admittedly I thought that I may be one of them, as I still have a fond place in my heart for the gory, satirical 1990 ‘original’. But in the […]