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Ryan Reynolds has become a fixture for more ‘mature’ films in which he demonstrates a self-deprecating subversive ability to keep the audience happy. But the upcoming The Adam Project, set for release by Netflix next month, looks to be a slightly more restrained performance – though early word is...
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On a battlefield bridge, two young girls – Vi and Powder – find they are now orphans and Vander, a man with previous blood on his hands, finds a new reason to go forward. As the years pass, the divide between the shiny city of Piltover and its neon-hued...
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Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) is a fast-mouthed, snarky art-thief who takes on jobs for the thrill rather than the pay-off. He’s very good at what he does and has a home full of stolen artefacts to prove it. When Interpol Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya) and an advisor named...
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Red Notice is one of those films that is purpose-built with a very specific template – combining top self-deprecating actors at the height of their fame and a fun, caper plot and scene-filled banter designed to keep the action moving. It’s the sort of film that would have to...
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After serving four years in prison for a drunk-driving accident that killed a young woman, Riley Flynn returns to the island community of his childhood. He’s a man adrift, shamed by his actions and not sure what to make of his life. His return is less one of desire,...
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Chris Hemsworth, hot off his Marvel Cinematic Universe job, frontlined Netflix‘s 2020 film Extraction. Though a throwback to a more traditional gung-ho age, the film – based on the graphic novel Ciudad by Ande Parks, penned by Avengers: Endgame‘s Joe Russo (and directed by Sam Hargrave) it became one...
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Nadia is a young mother on her way from her native Germany to the US for treatment for a very specific malady, one that means certain precautions have to be taken in advance and during the flight. She is travelling with her son, Elias, who knows of his mother’s...
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Years ago hit-woman Scarlet (Lena Headey) abandoned her daughter Sam, determined to keep her safe from the retribution she was going to take against those who had wronged her. Sam, already proficient in the ways of killing herself, did not take the abandonment well, but perfected her own repertoire...
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The near future… and a virus spreads across the world, plunging society into fractured chaos. Though some seem immune, millions die and the world changes. At the same time, healthy babies start to be born – they appear immune to the virus but have animal characteristics, sometimes subtle, sometimes not....