Marmalade
Billed as a romantic heist film, Marmalade has more in common with The Usual Suspects than it does to True Romance or A Life Less Ordinary. It is a movie…
Comedy
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
The second part of original Evil Dead film trilogy starts peculiarly: an abridged and modified retelling of the events of the first film in the series, presumably hoping to avoid…
The ‘Burbs
In one of Joe Dante‘s non-Creature Features, Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher are young parents living in a seemingly idyllic suburban cul-de-sac, inhabited by suspicious busybodies. Their patriotic veteran neighbour…
Gremlins
Joe Dante continues his fascination with the chaos caused by hoards of small, vicious creatures that he started with Piranha, with the more family-friendly Gremlins. It is a theme he…
Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s
A shamelessly B-grade horror film that doesn’t try to be anything that more. Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s focuses on small town students – clearly played by actors older than their…
The Toxic Avenger
Troma Entertainment is known for their crude humour, overblown violence, and gratuitous nudity, and, whilst their crowning achievement, 1984’s The Toxic Avenger, features all of the studio’s hallmarks, it is…