Category: Reviews

  • The Finest Hours – Review

    If you’re in the right mindset for a disaster/rescue picture, The Finest Hours will efficiently get the job done. Read More >

  • 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Review

    Lacking in that human, rawness that the story demands. Read More >

  • Dragon Blade – Review

    Dragon Blade is an uninspiring, hackneyed piece of cinema. Read More >

  • Sicario – Review

    “Sicario is engrossing cinema that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout, with some unbearably, and exhilaratingly suspenseful sequences”… Read More >

  • Southpaw – Review

    “Southpaw gets behind the facade of a boxer and revels in intimacy. But any sense of realism is undermined persistently by the filmmaker’s inclination to be so melodramatic”… Read More >

  • San Andreas – Review

    Movies have been obsessed with disaster from the very beginning. Biblical epics would rain supernatural forces down onto a deserving human race in the first half of the 20th century; human follies would entrap their makers in The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Titanic; outer space would even have a go with the likes of… Read More >

  • Kidnapping Freddy Heineken – Review

    “sympathising with these protagonists is evidently the ultimate goal – and yet it’s never achieved” Read More >

  • Wild Card – Review

    “Jason Statham is Jason Statham with a Jason Statham accent in this Jason Statham thriller”… Read More >

  • The Gunman – Review

    This uninvolving and largely forgettable thriller is only worthy of note for adding Sean Penn to the ever growing list of actors seeking a second career as action stars later in their careers… Read More >

  • Run All Night – Review

    The relief felt when discovering that this most generic-looking Liam Neeson action flick is the least generic-feeling of his recent output, is palpable. Run All Night proves that there is still plenty of fight left in the old dog yet. Read More >