Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Dead Rising: Endgame 2016

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Doubles down on the serious tones that hindered the first film, to awful effect.

• 

  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Doesn’t fully capitalise on a great concept but still a great time, like an odd blend of Starship Troopers and Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Popular reviews

• 

  Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 2023

  ★½ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  About 20 years ago I was a moderator on a War Of The Worlds fan forum called Eve Of The War. At the time there were three productions based on Wells’ text en route - Spielberg’s, one from The Asylum and one from a studio going by Pendragon Pictures. Pendragon it would seem is essentially a one man operation, that man being director Timothy Hines. He gave interviews in the run up to release about how great his adaptation would…

• 

  Werewolf of London 1935

  ★★★ Watched 28 Nov 2024

  “An intermittently captivating snapshot of the road not taken towards a more scientific and urbane werewolf genre than the one we ultimately got” - Tim Brayton

  Couldn’t have put it better myself Tim. This is such a more substantial film than The Wolf Man which would follow two films later. It actually has a plot, a range of characters, some off the time comedy and most importantly and surprisingly, better make up and transition effects than the film that would…