Category: Movie Reviews T-U

Trancers: City of Lost Angels (1988)

Posted on July 2, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

This is a fun follow-up to the original and a treat for fans. Cheap, silly, funny and inventive.

Trancers (1984)

Posted on June 25, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

Trancers is the granddaddy of direct-to-video and a mostly successful opening to the franchise.

The Contractor (2022)

Posted on June 7, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Contractor will engage you for the runtime, you will walk away fulfilled. In years to come you will struggle to remember if you have seen it.

The Big Racket (1976)

Posted on May 28, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

A racketeering group is operating in a village in Italy. Intimidating local business owners and subjecting resistors to barbaric violence in The Big Racket (1976)

The Desperate Hour (2021)

Posted on May 21, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Desperate Hour is a tension focused thriller centring on Naomi Watts plodding through the woods attempting to locate her son during a hostile event at nearby school.

The Heroin Busters (1977)

Posted on April 30, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Heroin Buster (1977) has been painstakingly remastered and celebrated almost 50 years after it slipped out. Here is my review of this slice of poliziotteschi.

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Posted on April 26, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Jewel of the Nile is a horrible, regressive, xenophobic pile of junk that needs to be forgotten.

The Devil’s Men (1976)

Posted on April 9, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Devil’s Men was released in 1976 and featured a few big names, admittedly at a difficult point during their careers, this was originally released in the US The Land of the Minotaur.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

Posted on February 26, 2022May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) shows potential, however, it’s loses it’s way pretty quickly.

The Cannonball Run (1981)

Posted on August 6, 2021May 10, 2026 by garethmyles

The Cannonball Run isn’t for everyone, in fact it isn’t for most. I have a love for it as I was just the right age to soak this up. A massive gamble, and a massive win!