Action-Adventure

Film Review | Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

March 30 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

March 23 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

March 14 2018, by Daniel Hart

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

March 14 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

March 12 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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)

February 11 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

February 4 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

February 4 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

January 8 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

January 7 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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

December 12 2017, by Alix Turner

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

October 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 4 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 3 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

September 24 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

September 18 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

September 9 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

August 23 2017, by Daniel Hart

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

August 20 2017, by Daniel Hart

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 

August 5 2017, by Daniel Hart

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...