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Author Archives: John Guzdek

A Lonely Place to Die

If beautiful scenery and excellent marksmanship are your thing then you will love this impressive British mountaineering thriller.

Apollo 18

Oh my God, is this real??? No, it’s not. And it’s not very good either.

Don't be Afraid of the Dark

I’m afraid you probably won’t be afraid of Don’t be Afraid of the Dark, A very middle of the road horror film that’s not great but okay for a bit of mindless entertainment.

The Town

Ben Affleck’s latest image enhancing effort is like a superhero movie with a cop-killing bank robber as the guy to root for. Uneven characterisation and cringeworthy cliches let this otherwise fairly gripping heist thriller down.

A History of Violence

Certainly engaging, intelligent and compelling at times but not quite good, consistent or believable enough for the wealth of praise heaped upon it.

Eden Lake

If you go down to the woods today… you might get tortured and set on fire by teenagers.

The Inbetweeners Movie

Entertaining and funny if not amazingly clungetastic.

Conan the Barbarian

This fantasy remake offers more than enough action but without a plot or any charactersation whatsoever to back it up, Conan fails to grace the heights of the early-Nineties cartoon.

The Day of the Jackal

Not to be confused with the fairly awful Nineties reimagining, The Day of the Jackal is a marvellously stylish and classy thriller from Frederick Forsythe, the master of suspense.

Fitzcarraldo

A glorious tale of what you can do with you put your mind (and a few hundred slaves) to a task that includes the South American jungle, an opera obsessed nut and an inconsiderately placed mountain.