A dive into one of the most overrated films ever I hate this film. ever since I first watched The Shining at eighteen years old I felt a distinct dislike of Kubrick’s movie. I had heard all of the typically celebratory remarks, I had seen it placed in people’s ‘Top Ten’ horror films of all
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An insult to the undead Over a year ago now, I wrote a post explaining why I disliked the much-loved Night of the Living Dead. Now I return after finally, finally watching the 1978 sequel Dawn of the Dead to tell you that it is even worse. Perhaps I was spoiled by seeing the 2004
A late nineties classic that always manages to entertain. Stephen Sommers built a reputation in the early 2000s as the go-to director for campy big-budget B-movies such as The Scorpion King (2002) and Van Helsing (2004). What he is best known for, however, is his 1999 reboot of the Universal classic The Mummy. The Mummy
These practises have to stop. The season pass. It’s the latest trend in the gaming industry being used to make gaming more profitable and enjoyable for the community. Lauded as a worthy successor to the notorious loot boxes that were destroying much of what made playing enjoyable and reducing gaming to an RNG loot-based nightmare,
It’s time we cancel this toxic movement Defined by The Telegraph as ‘Most simply, to cancel someone is to reject them, to ignore, to publicly oppose their views or actions and to deprive them of time and attention – and, sometimes, their ability to make a living’, “cancel culture” has become one of the most pressing
Exploring the fantasy of the galaxy far, far away… This is perhaps one of the most contested issues in popular culture. Ever since Star Wars premiered in 1977 is has become synonymous with the Science-Fiction genre. Whenever a discussion or mention is made of Sci-Fi, Star Wars follows not long after, usually being proclaimed as
Proof that box-office earnings aren’t everything. Until 2019, Avatar was the highest-grossing movie of all time. Not by a slither but by a huge margin. I had hoped back in 2015 that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be the one to finally dethrone James Cameron’s film. Yet even the box-office juggernaut that is Star
A disappointing follow up to Infinity Ward’s best game in years. If 2019’s Modern Warfare was that cool friend that turned the volume up to 11, then this year’s Cold War is the miserable neighbour who turns the dial down to six while still thinking he’s cool. After my initial foray into the Beta, I
It really isn’t all that… George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was a film that I desperately, desperately wanted to love. I had heard stories about a low-budget arthouse film that inspired every zombie movie since, including my favourites 28 Days Later and REC. As a precursor, I would like to mention that
My first in a series of articles exploring my most unpopular opinions in the world of media. We start with a film that many have taken pleasure in deriding over the years; with Roger Ebert lambasting the film, describing it on his website as “a big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they