Casey Chong presents a selection of Die Hard riffs…The Die Hard on a [fill in the setting] subgenre first made its mark after director John McTiernan and then-television star Bruce Willis, of Moonlighting fame, ushered in a new era of action movies in 1988 to critical and financial success with the original Die Hard. It […]
Blade at 25: Revisiting the Marvel Action-Horror Classic
Hasitha Fernando revisits Blade, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary…1998’s Blade was release during a time when comic book movies had reached their proverbial nadir, with the likes of Richard Donner’s Superman and Tim Burton’s Batman being a thing of the past. However, the effort was blessed with some serious talent in front of and […]
Shades, Leather and New Messiahs in Late 90s Sci-Fi
Tom Jolliffe looks back on three key sci-fi films at the end of the last century – Blade, Dark City and The Matrix… Towards the tail end of the 20th Century, sci-fi cinema was in something of a rut. A plethora of films were being made, but with a few exceptions, everything seemed to be […]
When Sun-Block Spoiled Greatness: Blade is 20 Years Old
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Blade, after it turns 20… I remember it well. I remember it like it was only 10 years ago in fact, but it’s not. It has been 20 years. A tired action genre. A few brief flashes of excitement here and there. Schwarzenegger and Stallone were tiring and in their […]
