xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Xander Cage is back! (Cue a slightly muted and ambivalent response). And not a moment too soon, it seems, as a touch-screen hacking device called Pandora’s Box has been nabbed by Donnie Yen and his...
View ArticleAtomic Blonde (2017)
Charlize Theron shimmers and sizzles in this violent, neon homage to the 1980s and John le Carré novels. She delivers a bewitching performance which is at once sensual and visceral, and dripping in an...
View ArticleBlack Panther (2018)
A defining moment, not just in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – often criticised for its lack of diversity – but also for its wider representation of black culture. Disney (and by default,...
View ArticleBlack Water (2018)
Gone are the days when Hollywood would roll out the red carpet for a Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren double-header. Universal Soldier took $36m at the box office when it was released in 1992. What a...
View ArticleAnna (2019)
Confused spy film from writer-director Luc Besson which owes a huge debt to Atomic Blonde, devised as a showcase for Russian model Sasha Luss who makes her starring-role debut following an appearance...
View ArticleFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Big dumb fun from stuntman-turned-director David Leitch, parachuted into the Fast & Furious franchise after not messing up the second Deadpool film. He’s not trusted to control part of the official...
View ArticleSpawn (1997)
A twisted, grungy CGI experiment gone wrong, this live-action adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s popular comic book is a convoluted nightmare. It was famously killed by the critics, which is a shame...
View ArticleOne Shot (2021)
Taut, enveloping, and very well crafted ‘one-take’ action film which absolutely delivers on its real-time premise. The technique has been explored in Hollywood in recent years in the Academy...
View ArticleCarter (2022)
Director Jung Byung-gil takes the frenetic ‘one shot’ approach he developed for the action sequences in 2017’s The Villainess and expands the concept into a full movie. As you can imagine, at over two...
View ArticleThe Gray Man (2022)
An adaption of Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man novel series about a former assassin for the CIA, this is one of Netflix’s most expensive films with a production budget of around $200m. It’s the sort of...
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