GHOST STORIES (2017)
A skeptical professor embarks on an investigation into three unexplained cases of apparitions…
2018: Summer Blockbuster Appraisal
Thanos clicked with Marvel fans; The Rock eventually crumbled; big monsters ate rivals; superheroes flew higher; Star Wars’s box office was ‘so low’; the impossible Tom Cruise proved unmissable, and never underestimate an Abba sing-a-long…
UPGRADE (2018)
Set in a near-future where technology controls nearly all aspects of life, a technophobe has his world turned upside-down, and his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant…
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.4 – ‘Talk’
My concerns about the imbalance of Better Call Saul was compounded by “Talk”, because Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) storyline is by far the least interesting…
GAME NIGHT (2018)
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.3 – ‘Something Beautiful’
There’s widening a disparity at the heart of Better Call Saul, as the storylines focusing on its star, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), are often…
POLICE STORY (1985) • POLICE STORY 2 (1988)
A Hong Kong policeman must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop…
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.2 – ‘Breathe’
We’re still not quite at the turning point where Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) becomes Saul, but every episode edges us closer. Although Jimmy’s not even…
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING (1991)
Russell Mulcahy’s Highlander didn’t decapitate the competition at the 1986 box office. The action-adventure about immortal warriors embroiled in a lethal knockout tournament, because…
FLESH + BLOOD (1985)
In 16th-century Italy, a young noblewoman is kidnapped by mercenaries and becomes obsessed with their common behaviour, as her fiance struggles to rescue her…
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.1 – ‘Smoke’
It’s been 14 months since the third season ended with “Lantern“, so you’d be forgiven for having a hazy memory about how it concluded….
ESCAPE PLAN 2: HADES (2018)
When one of his team is thrown into a high-tech prison in an unknown location, security expert Ray Breslin must try to break him out…