Western of the Week: Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971)
While the golden years of the Western Genre were no doubt the 50's and 60's, the 70's still had its own fair share of classics. The likes...
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Further Afield: Vasan Bala's The Man Who Feels No Pain (2018)
To many, they will have a pre-conceived notion in regards to Indian cinema, thinking that they are mostly full of overblown song and...
Further Afield: Cui Siwei's Savage (2019)
Screenwriter Cui Siwei makes his directorial debut with Savage (2018), a snowbound thriller that may be slightly lacking in character...
The Wonderful World of DTV: Joe Lynch's Point Blank (2019)
Not to be confused with the John Boorman classic of the same name, Point Blank (2019) is in fact a remake of the 2010 French thriller...
Further Afield: Chuck Russell's Junglee (2019)
After helming such hits as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (1987), The Mask (1994) and The Scorpion King (2001), Hollywood director Chuck...
The Wonderful World of DTV: Chee Keong Cheung's Redcon-1 (2018)
With the popularity of the Walking Dead (2010), it would seem that Zombies are now the go to monster for low budget filmmakers. You only...
The Wonderful World of DTV: Keoni Waxman's The Hard Way (2019)
After spending the majority of the last decade churning out Steven Seagal movies, director Keoni Waxman finally steps out of the veteran...
Further Afield: Park Hoon-jung's The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion (2018)
After helming gritty crime thrillers New World (2013) and V.I.P (2017), director Park Hoon-jung unexpectedly changes tact with Sci-fi...
The Wonderful World of DTV: Mathieu Weschler's Attrition (2018)
Steven Seagal’s latest in a long line of DTV actioners is slightly better than his most recent output, but still has many of the same...
The Neon Lights of the 80's: J. Lee Thompson's Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
After working together on crime thriller Messenger of Death, director J.Lee Thompson and Charles Bronson would go on to collaborate on...
The Neon Lights of the 80's: Andrew Davis' Code of Silence (1985)
1985 proved to be a particularly good year for Chuck Norris and his fans, with him going on to appear in what would be two of his best...
The Neon Lights of the 80's: Roger Spottiswoode's The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
To the uninitiated, D.B. Cooper was the name allocated to an unidentified airline hijacker in the early 70’s. Holding the passengers of a...
The Neon Lights of the 80's: J. Lee Thompson's Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Originally introduced to movie goers in Michael Winner’s Death Wish (1974), vigilante Paul Kersey has went on to become one of leading...
Late Night Horror: William Peter Blatty's Exorcist III (1990)
William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) is arguably the finest horror film ever made, with it still having a power to shock 46 years after...
The Gritty 70's: Michael Crichton's Coma (1978)
Michael Crichton is probably one of the most well-known authors around, with his novels forming the basis of blockbusters like Jurassic...
The Neon Lights of the 80's: J. Lee Thompson's Murphy's Law (1986)
Coming from Cannon Films, Murphy’s Law (1986) marks the sixth collaboration between actor Charles Bronson and Director J. Lee Thompson....
The Wonderful World of DTV: William Kaufman's Sinners & Saints (2010)
Director William Kaufman originally burst onto the DTV market with his directorial debut The Prodigy (2005). While it had some issues, it...
The Changing 90's: Geoff Murphy's Freejack (1992)
Before transitioning to Hollywood features, director Geoff Murphy had already built up a great deal of critical acclaim in his native New...
Western of the Week: J. Lee Thompson's The White Buffalo (1977)
Having collaborated the year previously on crime thriller St Ives (1976), director J. Lee Thompson and Charles Bronson didn’t waste any...
The Changing 90's: Russell Mulcahy's Ricochet (1991)
Through his Silver Pictures production company, Joel Silver produced some of the most well-known and popular action movies of the 80's...
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