apocalypse

Us horror and sci-fi fans, eh. What are we like? We’ve really only got ourselves to blame. With our love of great gore gags, our nostalgia for the halcyon days of the VHS boom and our partiality to a fun synth score we’re now at a time and…

Oh, look: another hero. In 1985, apparently sending George Miller’s Mad Max franchise to the hereafter, Tina Turner sang “we don’t need another hero”. Thirty years later, Miller has had a change of heart. Mad Max is back, with another hero,…

As a fan of the horror genre, I am a fond follower of the Zombie apocalypse style of film. Throughout the years we, the audience, have been inundated with many films relating to the Zombie apocalypse. Classics such as Day of the Dead, Night…

The first shot of the film is of Manhattan being destroyed by what appear to be several nuclear explosions. As the residents of an apartment building over the bridge panic and scramble for safety, several of them manage to gain access to…

Hungarian director Bela Tarr - in what he says will be his last film - delivers another highly original tale. Exquisitely shot, stately, and hopelessly oppressive. Whether the famous story the film uses as its starting point is true or…

The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can . . . . If this review could only be one word long then I would have to go with "bleak". That sums up The Road…