Category: Film Review.
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Re-Watch Collection Part 8: The New Blood.
The Fugitive (1993) This film is a classic of the action thriller genre, and a remake of an old 1960s TV show to boot. Directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege) and written by David Twohy (Pitch Black), it has become an example of how to do this genre correctly. Vascular surgeon Dr Richard Kimble (Harrison…
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Exploiting Wonderland – Films With Friends Collection Part 08: “Oops! I Did It Again”.
Evil Dead Rise (2023) Evil Dead Rise is a supernatural horror film from writer director Lee Cronin and is the fifth film in the Evil Dead franchise. It is not a reboot or remake, but a standalone entry in the same ‘universe’ as previous films. Rob Tapert returns as producer and Sam Raimi and Bruce…
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Tis The Season 2023 Collection Part 2: Jingle These Bells.
Friends “The One Where Rachel Quits” I like to do some Christmas episodes of tv shows in these reviews around this time of year, and with the recent passing of Matthew Perry, I had to do a Friends episode. But which one, there are ten. So I randomly generated a number and it came up…
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Tis The Season – Christmas 2023 Part 1: In the Beginning There Was this Reindeer…
Everyone has their favourite films to watch over the Christmas season. Feel-good classics, Rom-Coms, an action classic or two, a gore filled horror, or something truly bizarre. So, to start, here are my current 12 favourite Christmas Movies. 12. Gremlins (1984) Joe Dante’s comedy introduced us to the Mogwai, Gizmo, the Gremlins, and the three…
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Films With Friends Collection Part 7: Whose Laughing Now?
Barbie (2023) Yes! This overweight bearded human went to see the Barbie movie. And I loved it. Directed by Greta Gerwing, and co-written by her and Noah Baumbach, this film is based on the long-time cultural phenomenon by Mattel. Margot Robbie is our central “Stereotypical’ Barbie. She resides in Barbieland, a matriarchal society where women…
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The Rule of Three: Halloween 2023, Part Two.
Continuing on with the horror trilogies for 2023, here is part two. Here there are more cult classics, modern gems and even an action horror franchise. Hope you enjoy. Now excuse me, I have to go outside and investigate a noise alone in the dark. I’ll be right back. Urban Legend (1998) Urban Legend is…
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The Rule of Three: Halloween 2023. Part One.
Hello there Boils and Ghouls. This Spooky season at Exploiting Wonderland, I’m did something something different with the horror films I reviewed. They weren’t individual films, but trilogies. That’s right Horror Hounds, I tried to get through as many horror trilogies I could in thirty days, in, what I’m called, the Rule of Three. On…
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Lost in the 90s – Warrior Women Edition.
While big studios where um-ing and ah-ing about strong female characters leading a major film (because studios heads where and remain out of touch) the smaller studios and independent producers where still trying anything and everything they could to make an impact. Most of the time, that was in the lucrative Straight-to-video market. Here the…
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Re-Watch – Things are Getting Hairy: A Brief Look at Werewolves on Film.
I love werewolves in fiction. There are so many great stories I have read and watched over the years. And while they have not been as popular or as reinvented as vampires or Frankenstein’s monster, I have always had a soft spot of the lycanthropes. So, I had a look at some notable entries in…
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Warlock No More: Goodbye Julian Sands.
Today, with a heavy heart and the eyes of a clairvoyant guiding the way, I have to mention the passing of an actor whose work I have loved and admired for a long while, Julian Sands. Sands got a career boost in two critically acclaimed films in the 80s, the war drama The Killing Fields…
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