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Timothy Balme stands amid gore and dismembered bodies in a basement scene from the 1992 horror comedy Dead Alive.Fran Walsh

Dead Alive / Braindead (1992) Review

Dead Alive (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peter Jackson made the bloodiest film ever produced, reportedly using around three hundred litres of fake blood in the last twenty minutes alone, and underneath the lawnmower it…

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Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins stands among dwarves and a wizard in a misty forest setting from The Hobbit films. TITLEFran Walsh

The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) Review

The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…

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