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Blu-ray Review: Antonio Banderas Is After Revenge In ACTS OF VENGEANCE

Acts Of Vengeance isn’t a bad revenge thriller, but it lacks the complexity to make it a good one. It doesn’t quite have enough going for it to make it stand out from the plethora of other DTV/VOD action movies released every month. Having [...]

April 28, 2018

I Had No Interest In THOR: RAGNAROK…Then The Trailer Hit

As much as I hate to admit it – this is one well cut trailer for Thor: Ragnarok. The music (a bit of led Zeppelin), the pacing, the humour – it all works. I enjoyed the original Thor, but didn’t feel anything for the second [...]

April 10, 2017

New Trailer For STAR TREK BEYOND Is An Entertaining Enterprise

I enjoyed J.J Abrams’ Star Trek and I thought its follow-up Star Trek Into Darkness was passable, if a little boring. I’m no Trekkie but this new trailer for Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond looks like fun. It gives the sense of adventure [...]

May 21, 2016

Trailer For STAR TREK BEYOND Sees Chris Pine And Crew Boldly Go Where They’ve Never Gone Before

It looks like Chris Pine and company will finally get to go where no one has gone before in Star Trek Beyond. Action and adventure seem to be the order of the day in this first trailer for the sci-fi sequel. Fast And Furious director Justin Lin [...]

December 14, 2015

Beam Me Up! First Official Image From STAR TREK BEYOND

Star Trek Beyond has had a tricky development – but that now seems to be behind the Justin Lin directed sci-fi flick. The film is now shooting – and here’s the first official image. It doesn’t show much, but it plays with Trek iconography. [...]

June 30, 2015

DVD Review: Karl Urban And James Marsden Lead The Cast Of THE LOFT

The Loft sees Erik Van Looy update his own 2008 Belgian thriller with a Hollywood. Karl Urban and James Marsden, Matthias Schoenaerts, Wentworth Miller and Eric Stonestreet star in the decidedly ‘90s thriller as a group of upwardly mobile alpha [...]

June 15, 2015

Hollywood Works In Mysterious Ways – And That’s Why There Won’t Be A DREDD Sequel

We get a lot of unnecessary sequels and often movies that are crying-out for one are left alone like orphans on a stranger’s doorstep. One such film is Dredd, the 2012 2000 A.D comic book adaptation written by Alex Garland. Dredd wasn’t seen by [...]

March 21, 2015

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Image: Khan Benedict Cumberbatch Dig It?

It has been the talk of the internet for months (years?), but it has finally been confirmed that Benedict Cumbersnatch…sorry…Cumberbatch will be playing ‘John Harrison’ in J.J Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness. Wait. Who? The smart [...]

December 11, 2012