Writing and reviews – all about what this Leo Loves
Writing and reviews – all about what this Leo Loves
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Originally titled Day of the Woman in 1978, I Spit on your Grave was widely criticised for its take on gang rape and violence. So much so that it was branded as a video nasty when it was released in the UK, which is something I will go into …
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Ok, I’m going to try not to gush too much throughout this review because I’ve already mentioned in my review of The Mask that I absolutely love Jim Carrey as an actor. If I’m being completely honest with you all, this is basically an article on how much I …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Final girl/boy (definition)the last character, be it male or female, left alive to confront the killer, usually the one left to tell the story. This is a theme of horror and slasher films I have covered previously in my review of Evil Dead in reference to Ash. It is …
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers This is something I like to call a gender-swap remake, a little like Ghostbusters. Chris Addison has taken the original story, told it almost frame by frame, the only difference being that the lead characters are female instead of male (and about 20 minutes of run time). Let’s look …
WARNING: This article may contain spoilers I think this is something we all dread, a future that isn’t all bright and cheery. A lot of the films I’ve covered for this article I’m sure will touch home with a lot of the fears that are affecting us now, let alone the fears they had for …
WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers I’m going to start off by saying that neither of these films got this part of Greek mythology quite right but there is such a thing as creative licence and truthfully, that isn’t what we’re here to talk about. In 1981, Harry Hamlin took on the role of the demi-god …
WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers If you were locked in a room for nearly two decades with no explanation – what would you do? The following review will explain the comparisons between exactly this and the reactions of Oh Dae-Su and Joseph Doucett in each version of OldBoy. Reference to the Title It is …
WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers When robbery meets extreme sports, there’s no telling what could go wrong. In 1991, we hit the waves with Johnny Utah in his pursuit of ‘The Presidents’ but little did we know, he was to resurface in 2015 with the thrills turned up a notch. All Too Convenient Something …
WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Let me take you on another journey into the dark mind of possibly my favourite author, Stephen King. We have ventured down this road before when looking at the adaptations of his coming-of-age tale, Carrie, but today we will enter into the story of the Creed family. Written in 1983, …
WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Let’s talk about possibly the coolest films to come out of the 1980s (and then the 90s), and I’m not talking The Matrix style of cool – this is something very different. Introducing The Blues Brothers. Similar Concept This was something I was a little bit wary of going …