Action-Adventure
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...
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...