Action Movie

Filmmaking, for audiences and filmmakers alike, is almost always an exercise in catharsis. We pay to laugh, to cry and to see our heroes win. Matthew Michael Carnahan’s directorial debut Mosul is a cathartic exercise if not for him than…

The announcement that there will soon be a sequel to the 2020 Vin Diesel superhero actioner Bloodshot has mostly been met with bemusement. “Y Tho” is the dominant response expressed through numerous memes. To most it was a failed attempt to…

Let’s be honest here, video game adaptations have (usually) never gone well. Beginning all the way back in 1993 with a big budget movie based upon the hugely successful Super Mario Bros. series, production companies like Buena Vista…

Chris Hemsworth fits the role of Marvel’s Thor like a well-oiled glove. He’s charming, he’s funny and, most importantly, check out those abs. Still, the commitment a Marvel contract requires often leaves many of their major stars unable to…

Fans of weirdo late night fare will rejoice at the news of a brand new BFI Blu-Ray reissue for this 1973 Britsploitation classic When we think of the biker movie some very potent cinematic images are immediately conjured up. There's a…

Sequels are always a tricky prospect, especially to a film that was as much of a pop culture phenomenon as The Matrix. The Wachowski siblings had come, seemingly out of nowhere, with a bold thinker’s action movie; a film that combined the…

John Woo’s back baby! The director of Face/Off, The Killer and Hard Boiled returns to Asian action cinema after a lengthy foray into Chinese historical epics. Everything people love about the Woo of the 1980s and 1990s is present in…

In the 15 years since its debut, The Core has become an exemplar of bad science onscreen. There are countless posts online which analyse the many ways that this film plays fast and loose with the laws of physics. However, science fiction…

Another year, another film based on a game that we're assured, this time, no question, will break the curse and be a good film. After her husband managed to make an aggressively boring film with Assassin's Creed, it's Alicia Vikander’s turn…

Parody culture is quickly realising it can’t keep up with the realities of pop culture. While some shows and the like keep trying to make jokes about how you can essentially attach the Rock to any random IP and a walk away with a bankable…