Perpetual Infinity
Perpetual Infinity was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Horror
A rerun of the Richard Whiteley TV quiz show contains more horror than this. The ubiquity of mobile phones and apps in daily life is ripe for exploration and a horror film is a perfect vehicle to explore the darker side of our societal obsession in a clever and insightful way. Unfortunately, there’s nothing remotely ..
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Surely they can’t think the Butler did it? As the third movie in the franchise, there was a specific burden on “Angel Has Fallen” to whit it’s a franchise tiebreaker. Mike Banning’s strike rate was balanced on a knife-edge: on one side, the solidly entertaining “Olympus Has Fallen”. On the other, the egregious shit show ..
Star Trek
Craggus’ Trek Trek Phase II Vol 2 was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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There may be trouble ahead, but while there’s sunshine and music and love and romance…let’s watch Guava Island and dance Available now on Amazon Prime, “Guava Island”, the latest Childish Gambino project, is a joyous, beautiful, bittersweet gem of a movie, balancing a carefree joie de vivre with a pointed, if slightly heavy-handed, critique of ..
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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Does the success of Venom and Aquaman herald the beginning of the end for the Superhero movie boom? With “Venom” grossing $855m worldwide and “Aquaman” taking over $1billion at the global box office, one thing is clear: the box office domination of the Superhero movie genre is coming to an end and the oft-prophesied superhero ..
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Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle roars off the starting line but floods the engine and eventually stalls. “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” somehow manages to be simultaneously more empowered and more misogynistic than its predecessor, eloquently underlining the oxymoronic nature of this muddled, near chimeric sequel which occasionally hits higher hights than the 2000 movie but all ..
Star Trek
Such Sweet Sorrow Part II was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Horror
It Chapter Two (2019) Review was last modified: June 3rd, 2025 by Craig Holton
Television
Episode 2 of the BBC’s The War Of The Worlds charts humanity’s continuing efforts to defeat the Martians by boring them to death While it retains many of the faults of the first episode, there are at least signs here and there of some improvement in this still disjointed and sluggish adaptation of H G ..
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The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Review was last modified: August 19th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Horror
Gremlins (1984) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Shark Weak
Look! Up in the sky! It’s absurd! It’s a shame! Yes, it’s Super Shark! Imbued with special powers by a toxic waste spill, mild-mannered ocean dweller Shark Kent dedicates himself to using his newfound abilities to fight for truth, justice and…nope. As fun as that movie would be, “Super Shark” is just another killer shark, ..
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Kim Possible (2019) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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Dakota Fanning brings the raw emotional terror of alien invasion to life in Steven Spielberg’s visually stunning but narratively stunted War Of The Worlds I’ve always had a love for H G Wells’ “The War Of The Worlds”, borne out of many a childhood listen to Jeff Wayne’s musical version. While I enjoy the contemporary ..
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The Mule (2019) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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Knives Out (2019) Review was last modified: August 19th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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Spies In Disguise (2019) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
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Dumbo has a surprisingly metatextual moral for the House of MouseHeadline There are nice nods to the twee opening of the original “Dumbo” as we’re treated to knowing shots of storks flying across the sky to portend the less romanticised arrival of baby Dumbo but in nodding to the animated classic so soon, this live-action ..
Star Trek
*SPOILERS* Where “Runaway” felt like an abandoned draft of a promising “Discovery” episode, “Calypso” feels like it could be the pilot for a whole new series of its own. Stretching the format of Short Treks, it tells what might be canon Trek’s most futuristic adventure, set some thousand years after the time of Discovery. After ..
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The Favourite (2019) Review was last modified: August 19th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Shark Weak
An Inconvenient Tooth Bad shark movies are a lot of fun, but behind all the hyped-up mega predator nonsense, the fact of the matter that when it comes down to it, it’s us humans who are the real monsters. In 2006, Canadian diver and cinematographer Rob Stewart set out to study sharks in the wild ..
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1988) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Christmas
A Christmas Carol’s final episode manages to pull a haunting final visitation from the horrors which preceded it. It’s been a dark and terrible night so far for Ebeneezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) and it’s not been too kind on this particular viewer either. The handsome and haunting production values of the BBC’s A Christmas Carol ..
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Star Trek
Craggus’ Trek Trek Phase II Vol 12 was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
Doctor Who
Canon to the left of us, non-canon to the right, here we are stuck in the middle with…Who? Looking back at Peter Cushing’s Amicus Doctor Who for the2nd Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon If you thought Sony’s plan to create a viable cinematic franchise based around a popular recurring villain from another franchise with “Venom” was a ..
Horror
Bird Box (2018) Review was last modified: May 6th, 2025 by Craig Holton
