The 5th film (and possibly final) in the Rambo franchise sees Sylvester Stallone in a plot line that feels borrowed from a Taken movie. When his niece goes missing in Mexico looking for her absent father John Rambo uses his special skills to find her. I have always found the Rambo sequels an odd affair. … Continue reading Rambo: Last Blood

Grace (Samara Weaving) is marrying into the incredibly rich Le Domas family and she is soon to find out how eccentric they are too. On her wedding night she is told that all new family members must play a game and when she draws “Hide and Seek” what she doesn’t realise is that the loser … Continue reading Ready Or Not

Hells Kitchen, 1978. The husbands of Kathy (Melissa McCarthy), Ruby (Tiffany Haddish) and Claire (Elizabeth Moss) are sent to prison for armed robbery and when the Irish mob don’t provide for them they decide to continue on in their husbands roles and earn for themselves. The Kitchen has an initially interesting concept that fails to … Continue reading The Kitchen

Brother and sister Maria (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Charlie (Gabriel Bateman) get sucked into the magical world of Playmobil where they must save the people from an evil emperor (Adam Lambert). Thank heavens for cinema kids club! My children wanted to watch Playmobil on its first spin at the cinema but I wasn’t taken much by … Continue reading Playmobil: The Movie

In the near future space exploration is a reality. When the Earth is rocked by power surges Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is asked to travel across the solar system to seek out the father he thought was lost years ago on a mission to search for extraterrestrial life. Two years ago James Gray brought … Continue reading Ad Astra

A Chinese family discover that their matriarch has only a few months left to live when she is diagnosed with lung cancer. They choose to keep the news from her and schedule a wedding as a means to bring the whole family together for a celebration. The Farewell is based on writer/director Lulu Wang’s life … Continue reading The Farewell

Inspired by a true story Hustlers is about a group of strippers who seek less legal means of making money when the financial crisis of 2008 dries up their custom. Feeling very much like a companion piece to The Wolf of Wall Street and with the rise of the women’s illegal activities taking the feel … Continue reading Hustlers

Twenty seven years after the Loser's Club survived the terrors of Pennywise the Clown they have all moved on from Derry with the exception of Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa). With children going missing again Mike calls his now estranged friends back to finish off the job they thought they completed as children. 2017's It was a brilliant … Continue reading It: Chapter Two

FBI informant Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is attempting to buy his freedom in exchange for providing information on a Polish mob boss when a drug deal goes wrong and a New York policeman is killed. With his boss livid, the FBI threatening to abandon him and the NYPD looking hard into the death of one … Continue reading The Informer

Two teenage scientific geniuses in Brooklyn have been working on a time machine, but when they hit upon success they find themselves using it for a cause they never would have expected. I found my way to this Netflix film via a list of "best films of 2019 so far" and whilst what I watched … Continue reading See You Yesterday