Triple Threat (2019)

It all kicks off in a remote part of South East Asia, where guns-for-hire Devereaux (Michael Jai White) and Joey (Michael Bispeng) spring their remorseless leader Collins (Scott Adkins) from […]

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Picking up a decade after the events of its predecessor, ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ starts off with an intriguing angle – to explore life after a near global catastrophe. But it […]

Snowpiercer (2013)

After seventeen years of subhuman conditions, the people in back are about to explode and Curtis (Chris Evans) is elected to lead the charge, albeit reluctantly. There have been failed […]

Tomb Raider (2018)

In the early 2000’s, Angelina Jolie played Lara Croft in a couple of films based on the video-game character who fuelled the fantasies of gaming nerds everywhere. Based on the success of […]

Red Sparrow (2018)

Jennifer Lawrence assumes a Russian accent to play Dominika Egorova, a star ballerina whose dancing career is cut short after she suffers a sickening injury onstage. She lives with her […]

First Love (2019)

Few directors make pulp action movies with the pizzazz of Takashi Miike. And the Japanese filmmaker’s 103rd (yes, one-hundred-and-third) feature, First Love (Hatsukoi), is a delirious cocktail of all his stylistic flourishes. […]

Mulan (2020)

Its origins date back centuries, and its animated predecessor is beloved within the ‘90s Disney canon, but the latest version of “Mulan” couldn’t be more relevant, vital, and alive. Director Niki […]

Guns Akimbo (2019)

Since setting down his wand for the last time, Daniel Radcliffe has been challenging himself with a series of surprising movie choices, tackling horror (Horns), thriller (Imperium), drama (Kill Your […]

Gundala (2019)

Gundala takes place on the mean streets of Jakarta, a wretched hive of villainy with Gotham City-like levels of corruption and neglect. Crime is out of control, gangs run the streets, […]

Mortal Engines (2018)

Scale is impressive in a movie, if there is substance to back it. So when Peter Jackson decided to produce ‘Mortal Engines’, a film that is based on the books […]

Robin Hood (2018)

Most people are aware of Robin Hood’s story, and how the outloaw took from the rich and gave to the poor. It has also been made into a movie several […]

Project Power (2020)

Despite finding a fresh angle on one of cinema’s most oversaturated genres, Project Power never fully capitalises on that potential. Like the streaming service’s other summer genre exercise The Old Guard, its hooky […]

The Outsider (2018)

As with American gangster films, yakuza-themed movies have long been a staple of Japanese cinema. But they rarely achieve significant exposure on American shores, for obvious (subtitles) reasons. Thus provides […]

The Raid 2: Berandal (2014)

Picking up from where the last Raid (Raid 1: Redemption) left off (you don’t necessarily have to have watched the last one to follow this movie), the wiry and wired […]

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) is a cyber-surgeon who finds a discarded female cyborg shell in a junkyard. When he restores her, it becomes quickly evident that she’s no ordinary machine. […]

The Raid: Redemption (2011)

I missed out watching this movie a long time ago for a good reason – it’s a foreign language film and I had no idea about the actors, until recently. […]