In 1972, Colonel Jason Rhodes' (Gene Hackman) son is declared missing in action in Vietnam, but Rhodes refuses to give up the search. Ten years later he assembles a team of ex-soldiers to rescue his son from a prisoner of war camp. Uncommon Valour piqued my interest when I was searching for a film to … Continue reading Uncommon Valour
Retired Special Forces Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is forced to go on a one-man mission to save his daughter when she is kidnapped by a former, disgraced member of his team. Commando is a quintessential 1980s action movie and is refreshingly straightforward. Running at a lean ninety minutes, it gets straight to the point. … Continue reading Commando
Peter Parker (Tom Holland), forgotten by everyone he loves, has thrown himself headlong into life as a full-time friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. As the pressures of living without a support system begin to tell on him, a new unseen threat that can seemingly possess anyone to do their bidding comes to the fore. Spider-Man: Brand New … Continue reading Spider-Man: Brand New Day
After the Trojan War, Odysseus (Matt Damon) faces a perilous journey home to Ithaca, where his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) are desperately holding off suitors to his throne. Christopher Nolan is known for epic scale and scope in his movies, so perhaps he is best equipped of all people to … Continue reading The Odyssey
Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) finds himself pulled back into the CIA to assist his mentor James Greer (Wendell Pierce) in resolving a ghost from the past that threatens to destabilise Greer's position as Assistant Director of the CIA. With the plot split primarily between Dubai and London, Jack joins forces with MI6 agent Emma Marlow … Continue reading Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Whilst suffering cold feet over her impending marriage, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) discovers that her brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill) has been kidnapped, setting her on her most dangerous case yet. With the action relocated from London to Malta, the latest Enola Holmes mystery focuses on the ills caused by colonialism and what it means … Continue reading Enola Holmes 3
Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock), also known as Supergirl, is celebrating her twenty-third birthday. That is until Ruthye (Eve Ridley) walks into the bar she is celebrating in, asking for help to avenge her murdered family, whilst the villainous Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts) poisons her dog, Krypto. The immediate thing that sticks out with this iteration of … Continue reading Supergirl
Sheriff Ulysses Richardson (Bob Odenkirk) takes on the temporary role of sheriff in the small town of Normal, Minnesota, following the death of the town's current sheriff. He needs to keep things on an even keel for eight weeks until elections are held to vote in a new sheriff, but a simple robbery attempt on … Continue reading Normal
Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) has stolen a vast quantity of data from the employer who paid him to keep it safe. As he races to escape the operatives of his former employers who seek to prevent him from leaking the data, his path begins to converge with Kansas weather reporter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt). If … Continue reading Disclosure Day
When the evil Skeletor (Jared Leto) conquers Eternia, the young Prince Adam is sent through a portal to Earth to keep him safe. Fifteen years later, Adam is an HR employee on the verge of reclaiming his birthright. Back on Eternia, Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) teams up with Teela (Camila Mendes), her father Duncan (Idris Elba), … Continue reading Masters of the Universe
