M3GAN 2.0
Two years ago, killer doll movie M3GAN captured the public mood around AI by invading social media and being generally annoying. Now the tech bro pin-up is back in this […]
Tag Archives: action
Flight Risk
The Accountant meets Plane in this Mel Gibson-directed thriller about an accountant on a plane. In a rare title role, Topher Grace is Flight Risk AKA Winston, an accountant turned […]
Kill
After his fiancée (Tanya Maniktala) is kidnapped by train robbers, a commando (Lakshya) seeks delay re-payback, in this 2023 Indian action movie. The tone of this film is as strained […]
Collateral
Fare meters meet 9mms in Michael Mann’s 2004 action movie about a Los Angeles cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who unknowingly picks up a hitman (Tom Cruise). Along with films like Panic […]
Gladiator 2
Sixteen years since Maximus Decimus Meridius set Rome free, tyranny reins again and a new gladiator steps into the ring to shake off the shackles of oppression. This time it’s […]
Point Break
When the FBI suspect a surfer gang of perpetrating a string of bank robberies, rookie agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) must go undercover for some covert surfing – or incognito […]
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Instead of subjecting ourselves to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look back on the original clash of these titans, the dawning of a feud between ancient rivals that […]
13 Assassins
It is testament to the grandeur of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai that even its remakes get remakes (there are two Magnificent Sevens and two 13 Assassins) while the original title […]
Avatar: The Way of Water
In this follow-up to 2009’s Avatar, when the humans come back to Pandora, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) takes his family on a three-plus hour retreat to the Metkayina clan of […]
Die Hard
Off-duty cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) tries to put on-the-take terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) under a vest in this oft-quoted Christmas classic. Stripping The Towering Inferno down to its […]
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