Tag Archives: John Carpenter

Film review | Lockout – Quick with his quips & his fists: Guy Pearce’s Snow is as cool as his name

Posted on 20 April 2012 by Jason Best

Guy Pearce’s cynical anti-hero Snow doesn’t sport a black eye-patch in sci-fi action thriller Lockout but otherwise he’s a dead ringer for Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken. The resemblance isn’t a surprise: producer Luc Besson has pretty much taken the plot … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – Saw

Posted on 25 October 2008 by Beth Williams

On Channel 4 tonight at 10pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This franchise about the sadistic game-playing serial killer has certainly got its followers. Saw V came out at UK cinemas yesterday, so … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – The Fog

Posted on 23 October 2008 by Beth Williams

On ITV4 tonight at 12.30am You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “Between midnight and one it finds you.” Since this ghostly chiller is showing during that hour, let’s hope it’s not foggy tonight…. I … Continue reading →

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