• McKinnon & Kunis bond with ‘Spy’ Fidelity…

    Audrey (Mila Kunis) is drowning her sorrows with best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon) after Audrey’s boyfriend Drew (Justin Thereoux) dumps her by text. In the midst of therapeutically burning all his possessions, she’s unaware that he’s actually dodging assassins in Europe. When he attempts to make amends on his...
  • Mars Deflects: ‘2036 – Origin Unknown’ lacks gravity…

    When the first manned shuttle to Mars in 2030 ends up with the loss of ship and crew, efforts to find out what happened are initiated. Six years pass and with a massive leap forward in self-building tech, the decision is made to use AI technology to oversee the...
  • To ‘Infinity’ and Beyond. Marvel’s empire strikes back.

    After watching his homeworld’s resources being incapable of supporting his civilisation the mad Titan, Thanos (James Brolin) came to the conclusion that only halving the universe’s population would ensure the survival of everyone left. Such reaping would not be swayed by money, power or position, he would see the...
  • Historically imperative, but ‘Shock and Awe’ lacks both…

    The morning of September 11th 2001 changed many lives, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and other targets by forces allied to Osama Bin Laden became a pivotal moment in history for individuals and an entire country’s place in the world. In the days...
  • Netflix ‘Extinction’ isn’t quite DOA, but lacks a pulse…

    Peter (Michael Peña)  is having very bad dreams – where his city and his friends and neighbours are suddenly slain by an attack mounted by lights that come from the sky. His family (including wife Alice – Lizzy Caplan) and co-workers have tried to be supportive but the strains...
  • Fallout – Impossible’s re:mission position…

    Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)’s new mission, should he choose to accept it, is to stop the sale of three spheres of plutonium that could wreak havoc if detonated. What’s left of the IMF’s opposite numbers /nemesis-organisation ‘The Syndicate’ is infusing itself with an even more extreme set of zealots,...
  • Apocalypse, Meh: ‘How it Ends’ is a road to nowhere…

    Seattle-based Will (Theo James) and his fiancée Samantha  (Kat Graham) have just found out she’s expecting their baby. When Will is on a business trip to Chicago, he decides to visit Sam’s parents and formally tell them the couple are planning to get married. Sam’s mother (Nicole Ari Parker)...
  • Bugs Bonne: ‘Ant Man & the Wasp’ – more buzz than sting…

    Ex-con and sometime adventurer Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is days away from completing his two years of house-arrest after illegally helping the fugitive Captain America (during the events of Civil War). But a strange vision of the sub-atomic world he barely escaped during his first outing in the insectoid...
  • Nailed it. Silence is golden for ‘A Quiet Place’…

    A group of people slowly make their way around the ramshackle remains of a small city store – its staff, inhabitants and a majority of its stock now long gone. It’s soon clear that this isn’t some opportunistic theft, but a family on the wrong side of something recent...
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