HorrorI’m pretty sure that, in a limbo competition, no matter how low the bar is set, it’s still considered cheating to dig your way under, but that doesn’t stop 2017’s “Flatliners” from boring straight down, aiming for rock bottom. Driven by a family tragedy, ambitious medical student Courtney (Elliot Page) seeks to find out what ..
HorrorNineties with a capital 9, stripped of the rose-coloured shroud of nostalgia, Joel Schumacher’s morbid thriller emphasises the ‘flat’ in “Flatliners”. Inspired by the near-death experiences of patients, a group of brilliant, ambitious medical students decide to probe beyond the veil to establish empirically what happens when you die. But as each of them becomes ..
HorrorFor a film that prides itself on a promise that you’ll never grow old, The Lost Boys has betrayed us all and turns 35 this year Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire. Thirty-five? How the fuck did this happen?? I did not approve this! ..
MoviesI went into “Pompeii” expecting a disaster movie and ended up getting a pretty disastrous movie, but then what else would you expect from notoriously mediocre director Paul W S Anderson? I do mention the volcano erupts, so *spoilers* ahead, I guess? The film opens with a largely unnecessary and bloodthirsty sequence set in 62AD ..