It is the night of the USA’s annual Purge, in which all crimes are declared legal for a 12 hour period. While most of the nation’s civilians cower fearfully inside their homes, other step onto the streets armed with handguns, … Continue reading REVIEW: The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
In a future America, one night of the year is handed over to the Purge: a ritualised spree where all crime including murder is no longer illegal, and where citizens can act out their most violent fantasies with legal impunity. … Continue reading REVIEW: The Purge (2013)
Five films and one TV drama in, and James DeMonaco’s The Purge series still feels as if it is flying under the radar – at least here in Australia it does. The sequels have all failed to qualify for a theatrical … Continue reading REVIEW: The Forever Purge (2021)
In the near future, the American economy has collapsed to the point where the freshly elected “New Founding Fathers of America” enact a social experiment: seal off New York’s Staten Island for 24 hours, during which time all crimes become … Continue reading REVIEW: The First Purge (2018)
Eighteen years after seeing her entire family murdered in front of her, US Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) is running for President with an openly avowed intent to end the annual ‘Purge’: one night of each year in which all … Continue reading REVIEW: The Purge: Election Year (2016)
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