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  • Review: The House With A Clock In Its Walls is a fun waste of time

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 18th September 2018

    Ugh. September. The worst month by some distance. Nothing good has ever happened in September. I checked history, which verified and confirmed: September is a dud. All the blockbusters are a distant memory, the big Christmas movies are too far away (see also: Christmas) and even the tiresome slog that is Oscar season has yet to get underway. That just leaves shitty geriaction movies where Denzel Washington kills people, horror movies that are too crap to save for Halloween and oddball movies that genuinely don't fit in anywhere else in the calendar. Mercifully, that last sub-genre occasionally yields surprising results, which is where The House With A Clock In Its Walls chimes in: it's not quite enough to salvage the September cesspool, but it is a fun kids' fantasy that does just about enough to distract you from the backslide into the arse end of the year.

  • Check out the poster for Bruce Willis' new movie, Death Wash

    Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 7th August 2017

    He wants the filth off the streets! He's planning to clean up the city! Etc!

  • Eli Roth wants to clown around with the creators of Clown

    Movie News | Chris | 18th November 2010

    Chalk up another entry in the suddenly burgeoning "fake trailer becomes real movie" sub-genre.

  • Cabin Fever

    Movie Review | Ali | 12th September 2004

    "This terrible, terrible trend started in American horror in the late nineties, where television actresses came over to horror films. They'd be fine and all, but when it came to doing a sex scene, they were like 'I'm not going to do it because I have a young audience.' So you got these neutered down, castrated pussy-ass horror...