Action-Adventure

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...

Review – Atomic Blonde

August 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

July 9 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

June 28 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 23 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 23 2017, by Daniel Hart

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

May 7 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 24 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 24 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

[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

April 21 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 16 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 14 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

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...