Action-Adventure
Review – Atomic Blonde
It’s Jane Wick. Okay, sorry, that’s not entirely accurate. But I’ve had that joke lined up since the first trailer, and while it might not...
Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming
It’s the sixth Spider-Man movie since the dawn of the new millennium, the second live-action reboot of the character, and the sixteenth entry into the...
Review – Transformers: The Last Knight
You know what this is: the FIFTH of Michael Bay’s inexplicably-successful Transformers movies. I’ve never met a single person who genuinely likes these things, and...
‘Black Site Delta’ Review – It’s a B-Picture with a C-List Cast and a D-Grade Sensibility
If there were awards for generic titles, Black Site Delta would win them. All of them. Those three little words tell you everything you need...
Review – Star Trek: Beyond
I have always been impressed with J.J. Abrams’ work since the day I came across his storytelling in Lost. I am not claiming he is a modern...
Review – Free Fire
Despite already boasting one of the most lurid, original, promising and peculiar catalogues in UK filmmaking, director Ben Wheatley and his co-writer, Amy Jump, have...
Review – Daredevil Season 2
Between you and me, despite all the evidence to the contrary, I didn’t think the second season of Daredevil was going to work. I know,...
Analysis – Daredevil Season 1
[Note: This was written before the release of Jessica Jones, Daredevil Season 2, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Just keep that in mind. Most of...
Review – Mechanic: Resurrection
Mechanic: Resurrection is the 2016 sequel to the 2011 remake of the 1972 original, each about a hitman, Arthur Bishop, played once by Charles Bronson...
‘The Purge: Anarchy’ | Film Review
I really didn’t like The Purge. Of course, the film was simply bad on its own terms, wedged within the confines of a generic home-invasion...
Review – The Fate of the Furious
The Fast & Furious series is a joke. I mean, seriously – this is literally a joke. I just sat down to watch the eighth...
Seventh Son Review – an over acted and terrible action-fantasy movie
It’s actually kind of amazing that a movie so full of individually awesome moments can be as insultingly, unforgivably terrible as Seventh Son. It’s kind...
Review – Taken 3
There’s a sequence early in Taken 3 which I presume is supposed to be a tense on-foot chase; across streets, through alleyways, over fences, Liam...
Review – Hitman: Agent 47
In the Hitman video games, the most prestigious ranking you can attain is that of “Silent Assassin”. Earning the moniker isn’t easy; to do so,...
Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
There’s a moment in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (the fifth of these movies – they don’t always put numbers on them) in which Tom...
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Review
The best scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron is, unsurprisingly, one we saw in the trailers, which I had the pleasure of reviewing. It’s not...
The Equalizer (2014) Review
I know what you’re thinking as you ponder over this review. – and so does The Equalizer. Most critics won’t ever peep their heads out...