Action-Adventure

Tom Cruise is running. He always is. For at least half of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, he’s running on...

These days, watching a Netflix science-fiction film is like picking through the bins of a high-end restaurant. You might, if you’re lucky, fish out something...

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer, from 2014, which rebooted the late-80s Edward Woodward TV series with a tea-sipping, classic-literature-reading, obsessive-compulsive Denzel...

Rawson Thurber’s Skycraper is the illegitimate lovechild of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno, pitting one of the world’s most impressive and imposing structures against...

It is probably useful to understand the general premise of this K-Drama series, which is difficult to realise from the first episode. Mr. Sunshine tells...

Jackie Chan is 64 years of age. He’d qualify for a free bus pass. Not that he’d ever use it; a career sprung out of...

This review contains spoilers for the season finale of Bulletproof. You’ll have to excuse the absence of regular Bulletproof reviews here. Thanks to each episode...

In Escape Plan, the first film, Sylvester Stallone played Ray Breslin, a former prosecutor whose wife and child were murdered by an escaped convict he...

This is a seriously frustrating film. It seems that Hotel Artemis just wants to have intriguing ideas, but doesn’t want to spend the time to flesh...

When the first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage was released, a bulletproof black American was the most potent political statement one might hope to find...

This review contains spoilers for the Condor premiere episode, “What Loneliness”. Okay, let me get this straight. First, in 1974, was the novel Six Days...

There’s an overarching plot in Bulletproof, one involving a gunman with a skin condition whose weapon of choice is a firearm from the 1930s. We...

Sara’s Notebook is remarkable throughout, raising important questions of morality and exposing the true fickleness of mortality. Following Laura, we are taken on a journey of...

Neeraj Pandey’s Aiyaary is a messy and overstuffed espionage thriller that runs for 160 agonizing minutes. Checking your watch during a bad movie is nothing...

Terminal runs for about 90 minutes, and I couldn’t for the life of me tell you what a single one of them was about. I...

Even by the usual standards of a show where teenage aliens battle with humming multi-colored laser swords, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 is...

My love for the career of John Woo is enthusiastic and hardly a secret, in particular for 1992’s Hard Boiled, which I wholeheartedly consider a...

The Pillars of the Earth is an odd game. It’s a point-and-click adventure that leans more towards being a straight-up interactive visual novel. As a...

There really are two characters in this Beirut: Jon Hamm’s Mason Skiles and the city of Beirut. Both were once on top, the envy of...

Troy: Fall of a City is the latest attempt to bring Homer’s (not that one) Illiad tales of legend to life. Life in Troy seems like...