Author Archives: Matt McAllister

The Interpreter

May 26th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

The Interpreter is the latest attempt to update the assassination/conspiracy sub-genre that flourished in the 70s. But in place of


Seed of Chucky

May 13th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

The most pleasingly bonkers horror in recent memory, the fifth entry in the Child’s Play series may not be high


City On Fire

April 25th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

Like many people I first came across City On Fire in the wake of Reservoir Dogs in the early 90s.


Downfall

April 16th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

By April 1945 everything was falling apart for the Third Reich. In the skies the Luftwaffe were all but finished,


Without a Paddle

April 16th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

“It’s Deliverance meets Road Trip!” You can almost see the pasty-faced movie execs chortling to themselves about the endless comic


Green Wing Special

April 1st, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

Green Wing is a show that permanently walks a tightrope between genius and irritating. The surreal hospital-set sitcom lays on


Robots

March 18th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

The title of the latest CG family comedy doesn’t leave you in too much doubt about the film’s subject matter


The Chorus

March 13th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

Mr Holland’s Opus in French anyone? Anyone? If the very idea fills you with a numbing sickness and dread (and


Layer Cake

March 7th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

The wave of bleak, hard-hitting British gangster movies of the 70s and 80s morphed into a different kind of hoodlum


JSA: Joint Security Area

March 1st, 2005 | by Matt McAllister

In the wake of the phenomenal international success of Oldboy comes the belated UK release of writer-director Park Chan-Wook’s second



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