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action, jennifer garner, peppermint, revenge, vigilante

Whilst there’s no denying that Peppermint is trash, it’s at least enjoyably so. So guilty is the pleasure of watching Jennifer Garner take out dozens of disposable villainous archetypes twice…

Hunter Killer (2018)

November 1, 2018

action, common, gary oldman, gerard butler, hunter killer, linda cardellini, submarine

In all honesty I was expecting Hunter Killer to be awful, so when I exited the film mildly amused at the mediocre actioner I had just witnessed I chalked it…

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

September 21, 2018

action, Comedy, Emma Thompson, johnny english, johnny english strikes again, olga kurylenko, rowan atkinson, sequel, spy, universal

Despite being incredibly vain, incompetent, and inexplicably conceited, Johnny English – the not-so-suave secret agent at the centre of Johnny English Strikes Again – manages to somehow be disarmingly likable. And it…

The Predator (2018)

September 13, 2018

Carlo Peritore

action, arnie, black comedy, boyd holbrook, Comedy, dark humour, jacob tremblay, keegan michael key, olivia munn, predator, sci fi, sci fi action, shane black, sterling k brown, the predator, thomas jane

When you hire Shane Black to write / direct a film, you can expect one of two things: self-reference and deconstruction. With Iron Man 3 he sent the more fervent of fans…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

June 20, 2018

action, bryce dallas howard, chris pratt, dinosaur, fallen kingdom, jurassic park, jurassic world, jurassic world fallen kingdom, sequel

Having an exciting director choice like J.A. Bayona (the Spanish filmmaker behind such imaginative titles as The Orphanage and A Monster Calls) behind the camera for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,…

Upgrade (2018)

June 14, 2018

Carlo Peritore

action, australian cinema, blumhouse, insidious, jason blum, leigh whannell, saw, sci fi, Upgrade

Upgrade is the type of movie that I would have side eyed while perusing the shelves of my local video store and then snuck into my house when mum wasn’t…

Rampage (2018)

April 13, 2018

action, arcade, dwayne johnson, jeffrey dean morgan, joe manganiello, malin ackerman, marley shelton, naomie harries, rampage, The Rock

In the opening moments of Rampage we witness a preppy blonde astronaut (Marley Shelton) frantically floating through zero gravity in a bid to escape the clutches of an oversized rodent…

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

March 30, 2018

Carlo Peritore

action, blockbuster, charlie day, japan, john boyega, kaiju, neon genesis, pacific rim, pacific rim uprising, Science Fiction, scott eastwood, steven deknight, ultraman