Action-Adventure

Revisions Review: Mechas and Monsters

May 14 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Revisions feel like fairly standard fare that somehow manages to be inventive but incredibly familiar at the same time. It has some interesting ideas but some...

Into the Badlands Series Finale Recap: The End. Or Is It?

May 7 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Into the Badlands Season 3 Episode 16 recap for the episode titled “Seven Strike as One” contains spoilers. Farewell, Into the Badlands. You were bizarre and...

‘Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back’ Film Review

May 4 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back is the directorial debut of Tom Edmunds and stars Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Christopher...

‘Baki’ Season 1, Part 2 Netflix Review

April 30 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Baki Season 1 Part 2 review is spoiler free. You can check out our thoughts on the first half of the season by clicking...

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Film Review

April 27 2019, by M.N. Miller

There have been very few immersive experiences of pure Hollywood joy like Avengers: Endgame. What Marvel has accomplished in the past decade-plus of films is...

‘Backfire’ (2017) | Film Review

April 24 2019, by M.N. Miller

Oh boy, when it comes to B-movie bliss, Netflix is the place to be. That, of course, is their penchant for obtaining thousands of films...

‘Hellboy’ (2019) Film Review

April 17 2019, by M.N. Miller

Legendary director Guillermo Del Toro’s vision of Hellboy, came when many had grown tired of the superhero genre. Studios were churning these films out with...

‘Alien Warfare’ Film Review

April 7 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

You’d be forgiven for thinking that everything about Alien Warfare is a joke. Alas, it isn’t, and so its earnest all-American seriousness turns what might have been...

‘Triple Threat’ Film Review

March 26 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Rarely do I wish that I liked a film more than I like Triple Threat. As a longtime enthusiast of dumb action cinema and a longtime adversary...

‘Paskal’ Netflix Film Review

March 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Paskal, the new Malaysian action movie from Adrian Teh that debuts globally on Netflix today, opens with an insistence that the following is based (however...

‘Burn Out’ Netflix Film Review

March 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Yann Gozlan‘s Burn Out, about a speed-demon motorcycle racer forced to moonlight as a drug courier, is nothing new. In fact, it’s everything old; a well-worn...

‘Welcome to Acapulco’ | Film Review

March 12 2019, by Daniel Hart

Welcome to Acapulco follows Matt Booth (Michael Kingsbaker), a video game programmer who is about to seal the most momentous deal of his life after putting...

‘The Glorious Seven’ Film Review

March 11 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The Glorious Seven tells the story of a man who is hired by a suspicious millionaire (Fernando Carrera) to rescue his anguished wife (Julia Mulligan)....

‘The Hard Way’ Netflix Review

March 6 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

A Michael Jai White film is a very particular thing, and The Hard Way is a Michael Jai White movie through and through. It’s a...

‘Atone’ | Film Review

February 26 2019, by Daniel Hart

On the surface, Wes Miller’s movie Atone is about a pastor receiving backlash from taking everything from the community and not giving back. The film is also...

‘Departures’ (‘Then Came You’) | Film Review

February 11 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Departures is directed by Peter Hutchings (The Outcasts), stars Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Nina Dobrev (Fam) and is an...

‘The City of Gold’ | Film Review

January 10 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The City of Gold is the latest film from Harry Locke IV (who has a very impressive-sounding name), who has directed many short films, and has been...

‘Sirius the Jaeger’ | Netflix Original Anime Review

December 21 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Right on the heels of Hero Mask and Baki comes the latest Netflix Original Anime, Sirius the Jaeger, all twelve episodes of which debuted on...

‘Intensive Care’ | Film Review

December 5 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Intensive Care is directed by Jared Bentley, who worked on the special effects of Army of Darkness, with this being his feature film debut. It...

‘Blood Brother’ | Film Review

December 4 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Blood Brother is a film that is a little bit better than you’d think and a lot worse than it might have been. Any low...