Tag: movie
Coyote vs Acme film review
Although it's not officially released until this coming Friday, it appears that a number of UK cinemas are showing limited previews of Coyote vs Acme this week. This included our local Vue cinema in Halifax, and so the three of us went along on Saturday to watch it. The film is inspired by a 1990...
Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026)
Even when writing this review I had to keep checking the name in brackets above. Yes, this really is a Spielberg joint.
《Once We Were Us》 Review
Find out why 《Once We Were Us》 is a movie you must watch
An 《Innocent Witness》 Review
A story of an autistic girl who witnessed a crime and fights to be a witness despite people dismissing her credibility.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Destin Daniel Cretton)⭐⭐⭐⭐
This is more like it. Tom Holland's fourth full-length outing as Spidey follows directly on from the so-so No Way Home, in which Doctor Strange used a magic spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker's secret identity, including best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) and love-of-his-life MJ (Zendaya).
《X+Y: A Brilliant Young Mind》 Review
A story about self-discovery and the wider world.
Supergirl (Craig Gillespie, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
A big swing and a small miss. Supergirl is an almost direct adaptation of Tom King and Bilquis Everly's award-winning, 2021 comic series, Supergirl:Woman of Tomorrow.
Colony (Yeon Sang-ho, 2026)⭐⭐⭐⭐
After PENINSULA, the not-as-good follow-up to his excellent TRAIN TO BUSAN, Yeon Sang-Ho has returned to the zombie genre with, I am happy to report, another solid banger.
Deep Water (Renny Harlin, 2026)⭐⭐
Renny Harlin returns to what he does best - making ok action flicks involving water and occasionally sharks.
The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki, 2026)⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Furious is the product of former fight choreographer Kenji Tanigaki, who is the man who gave 2024's Twilight of the Warriors:Walled In such crunchy martial arts action, among other recent Hong Kong classics. This is his 3rd film as a director and it is a corker.
(Updated) Harry Potter 《Mudblood》 fanfilm review
Curious how the American magical community fits in the original Harry Potter storyline?
Masters Of The Universe (Travis Knight, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
How do you make a watchable movie out of not just a 44-year old IP that was created purely to sell action figures, but one that was extremely cheesy at the time? The answer is to assemble a cast and crew who completely understand the assignment and hit the daftest elements harder than the Most Powerful Man In The Universe™ punches Skeletor.
Media Thread: The Amazing Digital Circus Ep. 9 - Remember
This was such a good show.
Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2026)⭐⭐⭐⭐
The follow-up to Andy Weir's Science-em-up The Martian offers more of the same clever problem solving and scientific extrapolations, but this time with much bigger stakes at play.
In The Grey (Guy Ritchie, 2026)⭐
This was an odd duck. Ostensibly a turbo-charged action vehicle, some serious pacing problems make it feel meandering and stodgy when it needs to be nimble and hard-hitting.
Відгук на «Бекрумс. Залаштунки»
Коротко резюмую враження від фільму, що заснований на інтернет легенді.
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (BenDavid Grabinski, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
The blurb for this made it sound like a standard gangster comedy affair but it has a sci-fi twist that becomes apparent as loan shark Nick (Vince Vaughan) calls Mike (James Marsden) away from an adulterous rendezvous with his wife, Alice (Eiza Gonzalez). Mike is understandable worried he is about to get whacked for the affair but is confused when he is told to chloroform... Nick. But a different, identical Nick who is in Nick's house.
Normal (Ben Wheatley, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
"Bob Odenkirk as an unlikely action hero" is a snack jar that Hollywood has double-dipped already via Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021) and its sequel Nobody 2 (Timo Tjajanto, 2025). Normal is co-written by Nobody writer Derek Kolstad and Odenkirk himself so you have to hope this is them refining the formula, right?
Climax (Gaspar Noe, 2018)⭐⭐⭐
More light-hearted, transgressive fun from cinema's Monsieur Chuckles. Climax is a largely improvised film supposedly based on the true story of a French dance troupe who had their after-party drinks spiked with LSD.
They Will Kill You (Kirill Sokolov, 2026)⭐⭐
This would have been a lot more impressive if I hadn't recently seen Ready Or Not 2 (or, indeed, Ready Or Not 1) as the two films have a quite similar premise. In this, ex-convict Asia (Zazie Beetz) arrives late one night to start her new job as a live-in maid at The Virgil, an exclusive apartment building in New York, under her boss Lilith (Patricia Arquette).
Touch Me (Addison Heimann, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
This extremely odd, occasionally very funny horror/sex comedy begins with Joey (Olivia Taylor Dudley) in her therapist's office, talking about a brief and intense affair she had with this random guy she met at a coffee shop. The tale quickly takes a turn as she reveals that 'Brian' was in fact an alien, on a mission to save the world from climate change. Oh, and his touch brings both indescribable ecstasy and cures Joey's crippling anxiety.
Apex (Baltasar Kormákur, 2026)⭐⭐
Stop me if you have heard this one before, but what if, MAN was THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME OF ALL? Eh? Makes you think!
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, 2026)⭐⭐
2019's Ready Or Not was a gleefully nasty action/horror/comedy in which newlywed Grace (Samara Weaving) was ritually hunted in a game of hide & seek by her new husband's family. The final act twist was that the ritual was genuinely supernatural and their failure to kill Grace meant the entire bloodline exploded in a fountain of gore at the displeasure of 'Mr Le Bail', who was implied to be Satan Himself.
Thrash (Tommy Wirkola, 2026)⭐⭐
A fun creature feature/disaster flick from the director of the awesome Dead Snow (2009), the incredible The Trip (2021) and the also-a-film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) among others.
Crime 101 (Bart Layton, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
A solid attempt at a slow-burn, grown-up crime drama in the Heat vein that never quite clicks into the high gear it needs to.
Sisu: Road To Revenge (Jalmari Helander, 2025)⭐⭐
Double-hard Finnish Bastard, Aatami (Jorma Tommila) returns for another killing spree. This time, with the War over and no further Nazis requiring murder, Aatami decides to dismantle his family home (where his wife and children were murdered during his long absence) in Soviet-occupied Karella and drive it on a truck across the border to free Finland.
We Bury The Dead (Zak Hilditch, 2026)⭐⭐
Fast zombies, slow zombies, zombies that aren't actually zombies but 'infected'? Sure, but have you ever seen SAD zombies?
Media Thread: Robots (2005)
Love the Theming
On: Project Hail Mary (Film)
Yesterday, I got to watch one of the most anticipated films of the year on the big screen.
Whistle (Corin Hardy, 2025)⭐⭐
Final Destination-esque hokum as Dafne Keen and friends discover an Aztec Death Whistle (google it) that when blown can summon your actual Death.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (Gore Verbinski, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
A solid attempt at a Terry Gilliam-style sci-fi movie that has something to say about the rise of AI and social media in general that mostly works and only occasionally feels like an old person tediously going on about 'screens'.
Primate (Johannes Roberts, 2026)⭐⭐⭐
A cheap, cheerful and fairly well done creature feature about a pet chimp that goes ape crazy after contracting rabies.
War Machine (Patrick Hughes, 2026)⭐⭐
What if Predator, but exploding and not as good? is the question asked and answered by this Alan Ritchson vehicle.
《Once We Were Us》 Review
Find out why 《Once We Were Us》 is a movie you must watch
Mercy (Timur Bekmambetov, 2026)
A strong contender for the most aggressively stupid film I have seen since The Room, Mercy is a dystopian AI fable that, among its many other faults, somehow manages to mangle its message such that it ends up as pro-dystopia.
Tron:Ares (Joachim Rønning, 2025)⭐⭐⭐
As a third installment to a franchise that almost nobody is invested in - some 15 years after Tron:Legacy and 43(!) years after the original Tron - Tron:Ares is... not bad? It might even be good if you can overlook a few major flaws.
The Rip (Joe Carnahan, 2026)⭐
Matt Damon & Ben Affleck team up again to play narcotics cops who have recently lost one of their team to murder.
Media Thread: DCU All-Star Superman
I should have watched this when it came out.
Dust Bunny (Brian Fuller, 2025)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Anyone hoping for a retread or continuation of Hannibal - Brian Fuller's previous collaboration with Mads Mikkelsen - will be disappointed at the dearth of artfully-flayed corpses and Turner Prize-baiting murder scenes, but Dust Bunny does share Fuller's distinctive eye for a captivating image and the subject matter is, on the face if it, quite grim.
I must recommend you watch 3-iron
It might be the best magic trick I've seen on screen
Sorry, Baby
Funny, plaintive movie about sad things.
Materialists
A beautiful, but confusing movie from the producer of Past Lives.
The Phoenician Scheme
A review of the Wes Anderson movie "The Phoenician Scheme"