Thanks a million! Article

Thanks a million!

Sometime in the past week, thecraggus.com (formerly What The Craggus Saw) passed a significant milestone – one million words of content. At the time of writing, it’s actually 1,004,144 words – oh no, wait now it’s 1,004,172 and, well, you get the drift. Whether you’ve read one review, or every single one of those million ..

V (1983) & V: The Final Battle (1984) Television

V (1983) & V: The Final Battle (1984)

A very American Invasion Famously a parable evoking the darkest aspects of World War II through the perspective of an alien invasion, you might be thinking that V, the miniseries and its follow-up V: THE FINAL BATTLE may seem at first glance an odd lens through which to view the American experience. But what seemed ..

A Quiet Place Part II (2021) Review Horror

A Quiet Place Part II (2021) Review

A Quiet Place Part II fails to silence those nagging doubts Picking up not just where the first movie left off but actually before the first movie started, A QUIET PLACE PART II quickly and efficiently sets the scene for the drama to come. It’s good to see Krasinski back in these early scenes, underlining ..

Killer Rack (2015) Review Horror

Killer Rack (2015) Review

Killer Rack is a low-brow high-concept horror-comedy that’s a total bust. Proving I’ve a somewhat Pavlovian respone to notificaions from Letterboxd, I was notified that KILLER RACK was now available on Prime Video and immediately watched it. It turned out that notification was a trap – a booby trap. Betty Downer (Jessica Zwolak), fed up ..

Anti-Life (2021) Review Movie

Anti-Life (2021) Review

Even Darkseid would hesitate to release this Anti-Life For an already cheap and cheerless sci-fi horror, ANTI-LIFE (aka BREACH) sure hit the anti-jackpot when it came to its casting. There are few movie stars who can chart a trajectory to the depths of abysmal like Bruce Willis. Oh, sure, people may decry Robert De Niro’s ..

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Review Horror

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Review

The truth is out there in surprisingly procedural threequel The Devil Made Me Do It Having come to THE CONJURING universe quite late, and taken a rather haphazard approach to watching them (I think ANNABELLE COMES HOME might have been my very first), it’s taken me a while to realise that I seem to enjoy ..

Oxygen (2021) Review Movie

Oxygen (2021) Review

An exercise in sophisticated sci-fi and economic filmmaking, OXYGEN – Alexandre Aja’s follow-up to CRAWL – retains that movie’s fascination with being trapped but spins it in an entirely different direction. While it may be tempting to draw immediate comparisons to the 2010 Ryan Reynolds-starring BURIED, it quickly makes a case for being something completely, ..