• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi To put it lightly, The Nightshifter (original title Morto Não Fala) is really out there – it’s wild. Ticking all the boxes to be both a hipster’s favourite and cult film, The Nightshifter is world cinema/foreign language, has a distinct colour palette, … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Nightshifter – Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Across his 30+ year career, Jean-Claude Van Damme has been the Kickboxer, the Universal Soldier and the Replicant, but now, in his best lead role since JCVD, he is The Bouncer. Opening with a magnificent following shot of Van Damme’s Lukas, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Bouncer – Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi So, what happens when you mix a post-Con Air Nicolas Cage with a post-Batman & Robin Joel Schumacher and a story involving underground porn and snuff films? You have 1999’s 8mm. 20 years on from its release, 8mm is far from being … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “8mm – Throwback 20”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Yes, The Haunting of Sharon Tate IS a real film, and starring none other than Lizzie McGuire star, Hilary Duff, in the titular role. In what is a revisionism of the tragic Manson murders of 50 years ago, this (slightly?) based-on-true-events story … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Haunting of Sharon Tate – Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi On the posters, they said, “Get ready to root for the bad guy”. A remake of the New Hollywood era, John Boorman led Point Blank, starring Lee Marvin, Payback was its stylish 1999 counterpart, dismissive of the motifs displayed back in 1967. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Payback – Throwback 20”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In Rocky III, Hulk Hogan’s Thunderlips once said “the ultimate male” and “the ultimate meatball” to describe both himself and Rocky Balboa respectively. Fast-forward to 1989 and those two descriptions are perfectly applicable to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Julius Benedict and Danny DeVito’s Vincent … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Twins – Throwback 30”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi At the age of 88, four-time Oscar winner Clint Eastwood makes his on screen return in crime drama The Mule, inspired by a New York Times article. Replacing the .44 Magnum (“the most powerful handgun in the world…”) with gardening scissors, Eastwood’s … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Mule – Film Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Bouncing between franchise revival films and the horrific Escape Plan 2, Sylvester Stallone stars alongside Stranger Things’ Matthew Modine in Backtrace – more appropriately direct-to-the-rubbish-bin than direct-to-video. Backtrace opens during the car journey home after a robbery or heist of sorts, and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Moonwalker, released during the singles run of Michael Jackson’s Bad album, is one of the wildest films of the 1980s. From MJ transforming into a car to Joe Pesci sporting a vertical ponytail, Moonwalker is full of mad sh*t. Sadly, for those … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Moonwalker – Throwback 30”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi “I’ll be back…” again, and again, and again it seems. With the inclusion of next year’s new Terminator film, the franchise will have produced six films over a 35 year period, despite a glaringly dramatic downgrade in quality after the second film, … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Terminator 6 – 2019 Preview”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi To parody Rambo’s iconic line in 2008’s Rambo: “This is who we are, this is what we do; live for the sequel or die for the reboot.” Having successfully brought life back into his first iconic character, Rocky Balboa, with Creed and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Rambo V – 2019 Preview”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The second edition of Bolton Film Festival came to a glorious triumph when a selection of 13 films, dubbed “Best of the Fest (Pt 2)”, were presented to a packed-out crowd of filmmakers, students, fans, the local Mayor and Mayoress, and the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Bolton Film Festival – Best of Closing Night and Awards”
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