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Kim Newman

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Mortal Kombat II (2026) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat (1995) was one of the better game-to-film efforts and Simon McQuoid here delivers the best MK movie since then. This is almost entirely down to Karl Urban, who is a hoot as Johnny Cage.” – SciFiNow May 6, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Hokum isn’t just hokum. On top of an affecting personal quest for a non-despairing ending, it delivers a full evening of scares, chills, wicked jokes and haunted escape-room hijinks.” – Empire Magazine May 1, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 47% 3/5 EDIT “The Mummy is intensely acted (Costa, especially, is outstanding) and has startling and original moments -- a gambit with granny’s false teeth is one of the biggest shocks of the year. ” – SciFiNow Apr 23, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Undertone tackles a lot of material, not all of which it can fully explore. That its stories unfold in bits and pieces (with drop-outs and ellipses) makes it an unnerving experience.” – SciFiNow Apr 8, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% 3/5 EDIT “For a wall-to-wall splatterfest, this is a feel-good picture. It doesn’t outstay its welcome, but there is an ever-so-slight sag an hour in when the repetitive fights become numbing.” – SciFiNow Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 81% 4/5 EDIT “A clever, funny, suspenseful, interestingly cynical science-fiction horror movie with a great collection of monsters — courtesy of make-up geniuses Dave and Lou Elsey — and a cast whose enthusiasm is, appropriately, infectious.” – Empire Magazine Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Okay, so it’s Cujo with a chimp and a pool instead of a dog and a car – but Primate delivers good, gruesome business and has a sense of fun. Solid horror hokum.” – Empire Magazine Feb 2, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% 2/5 EDIT “House cops out like too many 80s horror movies by sending itself up all the time.” – Empire Magazine Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% 5/5 EDIT “...The Magnificent Seven was the beginning of a trend to which we owe Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars...” – Empire Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “...A Few Good Men seems a transparent rewrite of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, with Jack Nicholson as a Captain Queeg whose crime is the brand of unofficial initiative-taking usually seen as a positive trait in films about the military.” – Sight & Sound Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% 5/5 EDIT “Perfect example of the Noir genre replete with shadowy stylistic visuals and rotten but charming characters.” – Empire Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) 54% EDIT “This spectacle fully embraces the toddler-tantrum-on-a-colossal-scale aesthetic and is winning because of rather than despite its essential goofiness.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% EDIT “An inspired reworking, and Durand’s delighted reading of the role of grandiose star turned villain invests this paradoxical epic – in the end, it’s a small story with planetary significance literally as an aside – with humour and horror in equal measure.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review In Flames (2023) 96% EDIT “Pervasive patriarchal threat tips into paranormal activity in the life of a young Pakistani medical student, resulting in a slightly predictable tale of haunting rooted in dark family secrets. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review In a Violent Nature (2024) 79% EDIT “ Even gruesome practical effects are presented without shock cuts or jump scares, as things which happen in (violent) nature rather than outrages against a moral universe.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 77% EDIT “There’s no shortage of comic book in-jokes, but the convoluted multiverse premise causes Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to get lost in their own film, competing with cameos and multiple versions of themselves. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Borderlands (2024) 10% EDIT “A junk-heap of a film set on a junk-heap of a planet, Borderlands joins the long list of dud computer game adaptations which are entirely derivative of earlier movies, comics, TV shows and toy packaging materials. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) 40% EDIT “It respects its source to a high degree – actors are cast (or made up) exactly to resemble Corben’s grotesque faces – and at least manages to evoke proper dread.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Salem's Lot (2024) 46% EDIT “As a stab at making vampires physically and spiritually threatening again after a run of fictions more sympathetic to their outsider status, Salem’s Lot is intermittently effective.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 69% 3/5 EDIT “This John Carpenter film is more like an assembly line vehicle than a customised job, but is nevertheless a slick, entertaining piece of work.” – Empire Magazine Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Just the right recipe for a seasonal horror cocktail — gruesome kills, proper suspense, sly wit, likeable leads and a dose of just deserts for very, very bad boys and girls.” – Empire Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% 2/5 EDIT “Making no sense isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker for a fun horror flick, but being confusing, poorly-structured and consistently cutting away from the action for unhelpful explanation is. ” – SciFiNow Dec 5, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% 4/5 EDIT “For its first two hours or so The Abyss is absolutely great action-man stuff, capitalising on everyone's fear of the deep and the dark.” – Empire Magazine Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Primitive War (2025) 63% 3/5 EDIT “An unashamed exploitation movie with teeth, this has all the dinosaur devilry and gung-ho soldiering you could want. There’s even a sweet Tyrannosaur love story in the mix.” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s darker in look and subject than the earlier films, but – like Craig’s obvious relish with Blanc’s improbable accent – Wake Up Dead Man remains extraordinarily pleasurable, a meal of brain food garnished with wicked wit. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 2, 2025 Full Review
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