Movie Reviews

Movie reviews are our specialty and passion. We deliver ratings and insights on films of all genres and sizes—from blockbuster hits to independent gems and streaming platform originals. Here is our extensive collection of reviews where we give our final opinion on many movies.

We also do TV Reviews too.

‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Review – Death Is Funnier Than Ever In A Decade-Later Return to Form

A few hours ago, by Jonathon Wilson

Arriving a decade after the last one and yet somehow right on time, Final Destination: Bloodlines is the gore-soaked antidote to a strain of self-serious...

‘Justin Willman: Magic Lover’ Review – A Fun Fusion Of Magic and Comedy

June 17 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Comedy and magic are so tightly intertwined that it’s a wonder we don’t get more live shows like Justin Willman: Magic Lover. In an hour-long...

‘Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem’ Review – The Man Who Walked So Donald Trump Could Run

June 16 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The comparison is so obvious, I might as well just lead with it. Everything about the chaotic mayoral tenure of Rob Ford, who is the...

Until Dawn (2025) Review – A Fun and Creative Adaptation That Avoids The Usual Pitfalls

June 15 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The best way to adapt a video game in live-action – animation is a different kettle of fish, as proved by Castlevania, Arcane, and most...

‘Diablo’ Review – The Rare Scott Adkins Movie Where He Isn’t the Best Thing About It

June 14 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You judge Scott Adkins movies on a curve. There’s no point worrying about plot or dialogue or even acting, at least not the showy awards-baiting...

‘Echo Valley’ Review – Well-Acted Rural Thriller Takes Too Many Turns In the Wrong Direction

June 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Echo Valley is one of those movies that start out as one thing and become something else. But it’s also a rarer type of movie...

I Found the Remake of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Endearing and wonderfully Thematic

June 13 2025, by Daniel Hart

I often wonder–though the answer is obvious–why live-action remakes of animated movies are made. From an artistic perspective, you could argue that the merit is...

‘Titan: The OceanGate Disaster’ Review – Spoiler Alert, It Was the Rich Guy’s Fault

June 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Titan: The OceanGate Disaster isn’t a whodunit, but it can nonetheless be summed up by saying, simply, that the rich guy did it. Then again,...

Deep Cover (2025) Review – Orlando Bloom Steals the Show In A Hilarious, Crowd-Pleasing Action-Comedy

June 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You can’t trust a great cast these days. Fountain of Youth had a pretty good one, and it was rubbish, which is always the expectation...

‘Cheers to Life’ Review – A Feel-Good Slice-Of-Life Drama A Little Too Carefree For Its Own Good

June 11 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The risk with making a laid-back chill-out movie is that there’s such a thing as a movie being too chilled out for its own good,...

‘Our Times’ Review – True Love Is Your Husband Being Surplus to Requirements

June 11 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Blimey, this is going to annoy people, isn’t it? The underlying thesis of Our Times, a Netflix rom-com about two married physicists who accidentally travel...

‘Ballerina’ Reminded me that the ‘World of John Wick’ is Worth our Time

June 10 2025, by Daniel Hart

There’s always a risk when you expand a universe–a fact that has sparked social media debate over the limits of the MCU–but Ballerina was the...

‘Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy’ Review – A Horrifying Account Of Flagrant Malpractice

June 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Netflix love a themed series. In the absence of Untold – which concluded its fifth “season” with Shooting Guards, The Liver King, and The Fall...

‘The Salt Path’ – Film Adaptation Is a Beautiful Story on Resilient Marriage

June 8 2025, by Daniel Hart

It’s rare these days that we are delivered a film that brings a resounding green light on the sanctity of marriage. Often, we are presented...

‘K.O.’ Review – Gaudy French Actioner Provides Decent Fighting But Nothing Else

June 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

If you cast an MMA fighter in the lead role of a movie, it’s a fairly obvious statement about what that movie is intended to...

‘Lost in Starlight’ Review – A Beautiful Animated Romance Treads New Ground

May 30 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Lost in Starlight is something of a first. It has been branded as Netflix’s first Korean animated feature, which is technically accurate, despite the prevalence...

‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review – Standalone Slasher Fails to Live Up To Its Title

May 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...

‘Fountain of Youth’ Review – An Uninspired Forgery Of Countless Better Treasure-Hunting Classics

May 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s a moment in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth when treasure hunter Luke Purdue (John Krasinski, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) steals a Rembrandt painting from...