A murdered schoolboy is resurrected and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens. If you listened to the latest Jump The Shark podcast from us here at The Unheard Nerd, you will have heard me discuss a manga I'm [...]

Birds of Prey and the Fabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn deserves a better reception than it's received. It's violent, bloody, over-the-top slapstick fun. Few highlights can be found in the 2016 film, 'Suicide Squad'. Despite slick marketing and cleverly cut [...]

Sonic The Hedgehog, an origin story for the titular character, triumphs against all the odds. Sometimes, just sometimes, fan outcry can have a positive effect. If you'd asked me last May if I was looking forward to the new 'Sonic The [...]

An action packed spectacle it may be. A satisfying conclusion to a saga spanning forty two years it is not. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is an incoherent mess of a film. Concluding a successful trilogy is a tough task. [...]

Kevin Smith makes a long overdue, but very welcome return to the View Askewniverse with his latest film, 'Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'. Writer and director Kevin Smith marked his place in Hollywood history twenty five years ago with a low [...]

Cleanin' Up The Town is a fascinating in-depth look at the making of 1984's Ghostbusters. Back in 2008, brother and sister production team, Anthony and Claire Bueno started work on a definitive behind the scenes Ghostbusters documentary entitled Cleanin’ Up The [...]

After Romero, Nicholson, Ledger and Leto, Can Joaquin Phoenix bring anything new to the Joker story? Joker. This was a film that I was honestly not expecting to be any good at all. But first, let us turn back the clock [...]

"Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter." It’s a cliché, but Weird Science is a film of its time, 1985 to be exact. Directed by John Hughes who helmed previous classics such as Sixteen Candles and The [...]

After two successful Hellboy film adaptations, can this reboot bring something fresh to the table? When I first saw an image of Ron Pearlman as Hellboy, possibly in the first trailer for the original 2004 film directed by Guillermo Del Toro, [...]

What if Superman was evil? This is Brightburn. Brightburn is a film that doesn’t seem to have caused a big impact at the box office and I think that’s a shame. This low budget film, a reported $7 million, sci-fi/horror tale [...]