It was called a repeater. The kind of rifle which made the Winchester family its fortune, through the company, Winchester Repeating Arms, founded in 1866 by Oliver Winchester. When Oliver’s son William Wirt Winchester succumbed to tuberculosis in 1881, William left behind a widow, Sarah, who inherited the company and its amassed wealth. According to legend,…
Review first published by Sight & Sound, March 2015 Synopsis: Armed with a time machine, an agent hopes to stop the elusive Fizzle Bomber before he can commit a massive terrorist attack on New York in 1975. Given a new face after his containment of an earlier bomb leaves him disfigured, the agent is sent…
Daybreakers first published by Sight & Sound, March 2010 Review: Emerging in 2003 – after 28 Days Later… (2002) but before Shaun of the Dead and the Dawn of the Dead remake (both 2004) – Michael and Peter Spierig’s self-funded feature debut Undead (2003) was at the forefront of the Noughties’ cinematic zombie revival, and had enough energy,…
Undead first published by Movie Gazette, 29 Dec 2004 René (Felicity Mason) may have just been crowned beauty queen in the small Queensland fishing community of Berkeley, but with the loan sharks circling her debt-ridden farm, she is set to flee to the big city – except that it is not so easy to leave…