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Owen Williams

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Bed Sitting Room (1969) 64% 4/5 EDIT “Exactly as dark and surreal as you would imagine a post-apocalyptic black comedy by Spike Milligan would be.” – Empire Magazine Feb 9, 2019 Full Review Shin Godzilla (2016) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Coming off like a peculiar mash-up of The Host and Dr Strangelove, Shin Godzilla is weirdly paced but does add a new twist to the old formula.” – Empire Magazine Aug 13, 2017 Full Review Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Once again combining a sense of genuine dread with a mischievous vein of humour, Insidious Chapter 3 successfully closes the trilogy with its beginning.” – Empire Magazine Jun 4, 2015 Full Review Robot Overlords (2014) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Unlike its titular villains, it's sleek and it never malfunctions.” – Empire Magazine Mar 26, 2015 Full Review Northern Soul (2014) 78% 3/5 EDIT “While the storyline is a little underpowered, it's so packed with vinyl gems (Edwin Starr, The Salvadores, Frankie Valli) that Northern Soul fans will be doing backdrops in the aisles.” – Empire Magazine Oct 16, 2014 Full Review Life After Beth (2014) 46% 4/5 EDIT “We must surely now be getting close to some sort of zombie saturation point, with even the zomromcom becoming a distinct subsubgenre. On Beth's evidence, however, there's life in the undead yet.” – Empire Magazine Oct 2, 2014 Full Review In Order of Disappearance (2014) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Funny and nasty in the best traditions of Headhunters and Jackpot, this is the Stellan Skarsgård vengeance thriller we've all been waiting for.” – Empire Magazine Sep 11, 2014 Full Review Blackwood (2014) 36% 2/5 EDIT “A hokey, clich-mining horror that boasts the odd haunted-house shock for the hardy viewer.” – Empire Magazine Jul 31, 2014 Full Review Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) 18% 2/5 EDIT “For those who aren't still blindly faithful to something they liked when they were nine, despite the colossal scale, there's little to see here.” – Empire Magazine Jul 6, 2014 Full Review Cheap Thrills (2013) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A grimly funny social allegory that doesn't pull a single punch.” – Empire Magazine Jun 2, 2014 Full Review American Interior (2014) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A slow-burn delight.” – Empire Magazine May 9, 2014 Full Review Patema Inverted (2013) 73% 3/5 EDIT “The premise invokes frequent head scratching, but Patema Inverted is charming fun from any angle.” – Empire Magazine Apr 27, 2014 Full Review Pompeii (2014) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Over-reaching and unintentionally amusing, this is straight-to-video quality inexplicably delivered at blockbuster scale. A thunderous volca-NO.” – Empire Magazine Apr 27, 2014 Full Review The Quiet Ones (2014) 38% 3/5 EDIT “Messier than recent Hammer output, but effectively chilling when it's not making us feel the noize.” – Empire Magazine Apr 7, 2014 Full Review The Conjuring (2013) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A strong cast and an atmosphere of real dread mean that despite a catalogue of immediately recognisable ghost devices, The Conjuring amounts to more than the sum of its scary parts.” – Empire Magazine Dec 16, 2013 Full Review Hammer of the Gods (2013) 26% 3/5 EDIT “A bloody-knuckled fightfest, back-dropped by the beautiful Welsh countryside, this defies its budget to bring a little epic to Viking Britain.” – Empire Magazine Aug 25, 2013 Full Review Kick-Ass 2 (2013) 33% 3/5 EDIT “A more modest success than the first Kick-Ass, but still of-a-piece with its scurrilous predecessor. Nobody flies a jet-pack up a skyscraper this time, but Kick-Ass 2 still has its share of over-the-top action, and the sweary laughs are just about intact.” – Empire Magazine Aug 12, 2013 Full Review From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Not on a par with Ghibli's greatest work like Totoro or Spirited Away but not without charms of its own. A solid second effort from Miyazaki Junior.” – Empire Magazine Jul 28, 2013 Full Review 009 Re: Cyborg (2012) 17% 2/5 EDIT “A disappointingly dated and unpowered Manga update.” – Empire Magazine Jun 2, 2013 Full Review Fast & Furious 6 (2013) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Furious 6, like its predecessors, is a big screen no-brainer that's objectively terrible but undeniably pleasurable.” – Empire Magazine May 12, 2013 Full Review Wu Xia (2011) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Full of blistering action sequences worthy of the Shaw Brothers legacy. A treat for martial arts fans.” – Empire Magazine Apr 28, 2013 Full Review The ABCs of Death (2012) 40% 2/5 EDIT “An interesting idea, but with so many cooks involved, the broth isn't quite good enough.” – Empire Magazine Apr 22, 2013 Full Review Citadel (2012) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Plenty of pungent ideas and a nice line in urban terror. The final product falls short of the best in Brit horror, though.” – Empire Magazine Feb 25, 2013 Full Review Reign of Assassins (2010) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Come for the crunching fight sequences and balletic wire-fu, stay for some surprisingly affecting character moments.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2013 Full Review The Fall of the Essex Boys (2012) 0% 1/5 EDIT “The umpteenth iteration of this hackneyed story delivers absolutely nothing that hasn't been done better in made-for-telly thrillers.” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2013 Full Review
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