REVIEW: No Time To Die (2021)
It’s a good life, isn’t it? There are few properties in cinema history that can elicit the same magnetism of James Bond. Ever since Maurice Binder’s title sequence dazzled with colorful bombast to John Barry’s iconic theme, the power of Bond has globally endured for…
REVIEW: Jungle Cruise (2021)
As one ride ends, another begins. It might be the cousin wanting to line up for the Mad Tea Party after disembarking Splash Mountain. Or, in this case, it might be Disney handing its flagship action-adventure attraction-based baton from Pirates of the Caribbean to Jungle…
REVIEW: Die in a Gunfight (2021)
Romeo & Juliet, the star-crossed lovers destined to be together but inter-family conflict prevents them from being so, is a tale as old as time. It’s one of fiction’s most famous love stories that has been told on stage and screen more times than arguably…
REVIEW: The Tomorrow War (2021)
Throw time travel into a story, and you better either play things brain-achingly smart, or so unashamedly daft that it’s almost too fun to stop and compare notes. The Tomorrow War, somehow manages to sit comfortably in the middle of this Venn diagram shaped like…
REVIEW: Fast 9 – The Fast Saga (2021)
From humble beginnings of street racing and stealing DVD players to becoming super spies, the Fast and Furious franchise and the Toretto family sure have evolved in ways we could never have imagined twenty years ago when The Fast and the Furious was released. The…
REVIEW: Shock Wave – Hong Kong Destruction (2021)
Shock Wave: Hong Kong Destruction is the sequel to the 2017 film Shock Wave and, once again, follows bomb disposal officer Poon Shing-Fung (Andy Lau – The Great Wall, House of Flying Daggers, Infernal Affairs Trilogy). After a bomb disposal goes wrong, he’s left in…
REVIEW: Occupation Rainfall (2021)
While the Saban brand may be most famous for its Power Rangers ownership, by tipping its toes into the horror genre with a Wrong Turn reboot, or into the world of crime with the Barry Keoghan vehicle Calm with Horses, Saban Films is aiming to…
REVIEW: Without Remorse (2021)
Michael B. Jordan has managed to crack every single franchise he’s put his name to. His success with Creed has him set for a third round that’ll also see him in the director’s chair, and not only was he the best thing in Black Panther,…
REVIEW: Nobody (2021)
Many films are born out of what-ifs, and most of those what-ifs are opposites of what’s already there. For Nobody, it looks at John Wick, specifically the first film, and picks avenues previously left alone. Our hitman protagonist still has a wife. He has a…
REVIEW: Outside the Wire (2021)
Netflix’s latest action movie is set in 2036 and sees the American military acting as a peace keeping force at the Ukraine/Russia border after a civil war breaks out led by warlord Victor Koval (Pilou Asbæk). Drone pilot Lieutenant Harp (Damson Idris) is our guide…
REVIEW: Greenland (2020)
Given the disaster movie genre’s penchant for releasing their films in pairs, like with 1996’s Twister and Tornado!, or 1997’s Dante’s Peak and Volcano, or 1998’s Armageddon and Deep Impact, I wait with bated breath for whichever film is paired with Greenland, the latest Gerard…
TV REVIEW: The Boys – Season 2: Episodes 4 & 5
If you’re anything like me, it wasn’t until Episode 3 that you were fully on board with The Boys’ sophomore season. Certainly, the show had its own massive boots to fill after the first season was nothing short of a global phenomenon, but where Season…
REVIEW: Crazy Samurai Musashi (Fantasia 2020)
One-take sequences are seemingly all the rage at the moment, especially following the box office success of Sam Mendes’ seamlessly edited war drama 1917. Action sequences particularly lend themselves to this form, take the crazy church sequence from Kingsman: The Secret Service or the iconic hallway attack in Oldboy for example. So…
