Action-Adventure
Film Review | Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Nobody asked for it, but Pacific Rim: Uprising is the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s nutty original, in which giant robots smacked giant monsters in...
‘Swordgai The Animation’ Season 1 Review: A Mesmerizing Blend of Violence and Humanity
Swordgai The Animation tells the tragic story of Gai, a child abandoned from birth, his self-inflicted retribution serves to set a course of anguish and...
‘Gringo’ Review – Disappointing Comedy Action Drama with Edgerton & Theron
Comedy action drama Gringo tells the story of Harold, who believes his executive friends are backstabbing him at a major pharmaceutical company. His suspicion eventually...
‘Steel Rain’ Review: North Korean Espionage and Doomsday Drama
Steel Rain cooks up a button-pushing doomsday scenario as a super-skilled North Korean agent team up with a dorky presidential aide to stave off a...
‘The Hurricane Heist’ Review – A Calamitous, Brain-Dead Thriller
In this exceptionally dumb thriller about bad weather and morons, thieves attempt a heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches. Directed...
Review | Accident Man (2018)
In Accident Man, a contract killer who specialises in making murders look innocent is pulled into a conspiracy when a loved one is targeted by...
Review | Braven
Braven review Director Lin Oeding Writer(s) Michael Nilon, Thomas Pa’a Sibbett Rating R Release Date February 2, 2018 What’s this? Braven is an unpretentious, thoroughly enjoyable...
‘Scorched Earth (2018)’ Review – A Cheap and Low-Quality Knock-Off Of Various Movies
Sometimes, a name is all you need. Scorched Earth is a post-apocalyptic Western – the title is literal. In it, Gina Carano (The Mandalorian) plays...
‘Day of the Dead: Bloodline’ Review – There’s Some Well-Constructed Action Beats But It’s A Bad Zombie Movie
Day of the Dead: Bloodline is a remake of 1985’s Day of the Dead. Which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, I guess. But...
‘Renegades’ (2017) Review – An Inconsistent and Mediocre Action-Thriller
Co-written and produced by Luc Besson (Anna 2019) and starring an interchangeable bunch of square-jawed Navy SEALs, Renegades is a run-of-the-mill gung-ho actioner that serves...
‘War on Everyone’ Review – Excellent Cast, Excellent Characters
War on Everyone is a film about two corrupt policemen and the mess they get into when they take their bribery down a new direction....
‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Review – A Serviceable Piece Of Work
Our third trip down the well-stocked aisles of Toys R Us, this time in search of LEGO’s apparently-popular Ninjago; a more narrative-heavy extension of LEGO’s...
Review – The Departed
Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) has practically run his part of Boston for years via dodgy dealings and violence despite any amount of police operations to...
Review – The Accountant
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a man with a better affinity for numbers than people. On the surface, it would seem that he is your...
Review – Kingsman: The Golden Circle
After Kingsman HQ is destroyed, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) have to call upon some extra help to find those behind the attack....
Review – Gun Shy
Sometimes, a bad movie leaves a tantalising trail of breadcrumbs all the way back to an idea that might have once seemed smart, or funny,...
Review – Unlocked
My favourite thing about Unlocked – the new perplexingly well-cast espionage action-thriller from veteran director Michael Apted – is the title. Someone really must have...
Review – What Happened To Monday
I do not like Mondays. It is always a bit of a shock to get up so early and respond to colleagues after such a...
Review – The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Somewhere in an air-conditioned office in Hollywood, a bunch of sweaty executives trawled through a big pile of scripts and raised this one in the...
Review – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
After many apparent hesitations, director Luc Besson and his wife decided to write an English-language French science fiction action-adventure film titled Valerian and the City...