Action-Adventure

Terminal (2018) Review – An Inscrutable Journey That Leaves You Uncertain

May 11 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 3 Review – Ambitious Action Meets Continuity Chaos

May 8 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

Manhunt Review

May 4 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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 Review

May 1 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

‘Beirut’ Review: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, and the Tragedy of a Fallen Paradise

April 23 2018, by Tyler Howat

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’ Review – BBC’s Epic Take on the Iliad Legends

April 10 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

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...