Reviews

The first way in which Bloodline diverges from its original is by showing life before the zombie apocalypse (not before showing us a very brief and very unnecessary cold open of zombie carnage, though) and introducing us to Max as the kind of creepy stalker who will carve his obsession's name into h... ...

As such, I can't really say that Hostel is a good movie, at least not enough to truly rise above its reputation as a film that embodies the horror genre's weaknesses more so than its strengths. ...

Naturally, the remake goes for a simple back-to-basics approach that quickly recaps Jason's origin story (he's presumed dead because of the camp counselors' gross negligence, his mother swears revenge and ultimately gets killed by a counselor who fights back, he witnesses her death and decides to co... ...

Even after adjusting expectations away from the idea that this is primarily a horror movie, Brotherhood of the Wolf does little to actually prove an entertaining watch as even an action movie or as a drama or any combination of the three. ...

Jack Crow (James Woods) is a lifelong vampire hunter who leads a squad of other hunters to clear out entire nests of vampires throughout the country - however, he faces his latest challenge when an all-new and unusually powerful vampire attacks his crew, leaving him with only his equally hardened pa... ...

The action itself is similarly underwhelming - there's little in the way of tension or excitement or even humour to any of the moments where the movie runs through some exceedingly generic set-pieces and becomes what may just be the most flat-out boring movie of 2016. ...

Creating a provocative send-up of kids' movies doesn't matter when you're just as dependent on formulaic developments and obnoxious humour as the movies you're mocking; even satirically-minded overindulgence in the genre's weaknesses can't save this overlong-at-eighty-minutes movie from being the 'w... ...

Even when you disregard the ties to a greater continuity and take the movie as a stand-alone feature, it is still incredibly dependent on replicating many aspects of stock-standard superhero movies (even its final scene feels like a cruel subversion of a certain other superhero movie's nominally tri... ...

The fact that Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) chooses to drive away instead of listening to a Blues Traveler song that still gets played in its entirety anyway is as succinct a statement about the worth of this film as anything. ...

There is something to be said for the way that the film develops Bodhi (here given a compelling sense of serenity by gar Ram z, who is definitely one of the film's few highlights) and his relationship with Johnny (Luke Bracey, who is sadly not the charming brand of wooden even when the character's ... ...