If The Mind’s Eye was Joe Begos’ tribute to David Cronenberg and Bliss was a madball mash-up of styles and themes encompassing exploitation heavy hitters like H.G.Lewis and Abel Ferrara, then this is undoubtedly his open love letter to John Carpenter.
With a pulsating synth score, mood lighting and prowling camerawork, here’s a full-on ode to Assault On Precinct 13 / Escape From New York-era JC. An awesome cast of veteran cult character actors get tooled up in an ultraviolent…

Browsing through my 2013 diary here on Letterboxd it became apparent the vast majority of films I watched last year were either current or recent releases. To remedy this I decided to expand my viewing habits a bit more in 2014 by catching up with a few more vintage offerings, whether they be first-time watches or long overdue rewatches.
So, to this end I decided to set myself a mini movie season each and every month throughout this year in…

2011's The Raid was lean, mean, lightning-paced, and carried absolutely zero baggage, it was a supercharged combination of visual flair and insane ultraviolence. So the decision to develop the story in this eagerly-awaited sequel to a far more expansive narrative based around an undercover infiltration of the underworld, and the duplicity and dealings of gangland politics and rivalry, was always going to deliver a different, far broader kind of film. As a result The Raid 2, weighing in at a…