Rami Malek again breaks out his hacking skills in the globe-trotting revenge thriller The Amateur. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Littell, Malek plays Charles Heller, a genius-level CIA cryptographer whose life is shattered after a devastating terrorist attack takes the life of his wife, Sarah, played by Rachel Brosnahan. Not satisfied with the […]

Spending an ungodly amount of money, Netflix’s latest massive blockbuster, The Electric State, is a mish-mash of ideas that were expressed better in other films and a genuinely terrible script that seems to have contributed to some truly awful performances from the main cast. Set in an alternate 1994 following a massive war between robots […]

Released this past weekend on Apple TV+, The Gorge tries to combine romance, sci-fi, and action, but its generic plot elements outweigh its more interesting elements. Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller play elite snipers recruited to monitor two watchtowers on either side of a massive gorge for a year.  They are told to keep whatever […]

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid endure a brutal break-up in the hilarious, violent, and clever Companion. Sophie Thatcher plays Iris, while Jack Quaid is Josh. The couple head to the remote but opulent lake house of a wealthy acquaintance along with some other friends, but things go violently awry. After the mysterious first teaser trailer, […]

Hitting select theaters this past weekend, Donnie Yen directs and stars in the new legal thriller/martial arts action movie The Prosecutor. The film features some fantastic action sequences but sometimes gets bogged down in the legal minutiae of Hong Kong. Yen plays Fok Chi-Ho, a police officer who decides to become a prosecutor for Hong […]

With its R rating, Kraven the Hunter attempts to carve out a niche in Sony’s Marvel Universe, delivering a few solid and cool kills. However, despite these moments, the film ultimately falls flat, lacking the hilariously terrible tone of Madame Web or the bat-shit insanity of the Venom trilogy. The plot of “Kraven the Hunter” […]

The recently released Smile 2 does exactly what a good sequel should: it takes what worked in the first movie and ramps it up to new levels. Naomi Scott takes over the lead role as Skye Riley,  a troubled pop superstar on the verge of starting a big comeback tour.  While trying to get some […]

Dave Bautista battles a rogue’s gallery of colorful assassins in the over-the-top new action movie The Killer’s Game, which came out last weekend in theaters. Bautista plays Joe Flood, one of the, if not the, greatest assassin in the world.  Falling for a dancer, Maizie (Sofia Boutella), Joe wants out of the “killer’s game,” but […]

Horror director Fede Álvarez brings his penchant for visceral gore to the latest entry in the Alien franchise while also completely nailing the look and style first established in the 1979 Ridley Scott classic.

The Union, Netflix’s latest espionage action movie, doesn’t reach the heights of movies like Extraction but it is significantly better than truly forgettable dreck like Heart of Stone and is carried by the real-life friendship chemistry of Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.