Saw

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  • Saw V

    Movie Review | Ali | 25th October 2008

    A Saw movie at Halloween? Whatever next, a Michael Bay movie with explosions? Here we have a horror series that jumped (and tortured) the shark years ago; a fifth instalment of a franchise that shouldn't have been allowed to stumble out of trilogy town - heck, the main character died two movies ago and they're still pumping out ...

  • Saw IV

    Movie Review | Ali | 6th November 2007

    The first thing you see in Saw IV is Jigsaw's balls. A sign of things to come? Most definitely. Despite the death of cinema's favourite ironic punisher, his work will live on - a mysterious tape concealed in the deceased's gut will see to that - but sadly the people tasked with continuing his legacy have done a bit of a slapdash...

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

    Movie Review | Ali | 19th October 2006

    A while ago I was asked to review a book that deconstructed the Western genre, pulling apart classics like the Leone films to see what made them tick. One such chapter attempted to de-mystify Clint's 'Man With No Name' from the Dollars trilogy, giving him a political agenda and transposing all of these social values and ideolog...

  • Saw 2

    Movie Review | Ali | 2nd March 2006

    The original Saw was something of a triumph - a tightly-plotted schlock horror that used its budget limitations to its advantage and pinched all the right bits from the genre to forge a grisly identity all of its own. Just a year later, the inevitable sequel rears its ugly, pig head - it wasn't particularly wanted or needed, ye...

  • Saw

    Movie Review | Ali | 9th November 2004

    They say that it doesn't matter how many awards, statuettes and glowing reviews you get; you're not a truly great director until people start aping your style. If this is true, then Saw may well be the crowning achievement of David Fincher's career thus far - not that he had anything to do with it, mind, it's just that James Wa...