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Review – The terrific ‘Bumblebee’ realises Transformers movies are for kids

24/12/201823/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Adventure, Angela Bassett, Bumblebee, Certificate: PG, December 2018, Dylan O'Brien, Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Justin Theroux, Pamela Adlon, Peter Cullen, Rating: Pop, Stephen Schneider, Transformers, Travis Knight

Travis Knight brings warmth and childlike wonder to the Transformers franchise in Bumblebee, which puts character over spectacle.

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Review – ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ celebrates the character’s rich legacy

23/12/201823/12/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Animation, Bob Persichetti, Brian Tyree Henry, Certificate: PG, Comedy, December 2018, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, John Mulaney, Kathryn Hahn, Kimiko Glenn, Liev Schreiber, Lily Tomlin, Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Peter Ramsey, Phil Lord, Rating: Pop, Rodney Rothman, Shameik Moore, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Superhero, Zoe Kravitz

The madness of Marvel’s comic book multi-verses is brought to the fore in superhero animation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Review – ‘Aquaman’ goes straight in as a top-end DC film

22/12/201821/12/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Amber Heard, Aquaman, Certificate: 12, DC, December 2018, Dolph Lundgren, Fantasy, James Wan, Jason Momoa, Julie Andrews, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Rating: Pop, Superhero, Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Aquaman, directed by horror maestro James Wan, is a mad and unhinged superhero blockbuster, but it’s up there with the best of DC.

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DVD Review – ‘The Equalizer 2’ is a flat, jumbled action sequel

18/12/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Antoine Fuqua, Ashton Sanders, Bill Pullman, Certificate: 15, December 2018, Denzel Washington, DVD, Melissa Leo, Orson Bean, Pedro Pascal, Rating: Poop, Sakina Jaffrey, The Equalizer, The Equalizer 2, Thriller

Denzel Washington stars in his first ever sequel with Equalizer 2, but leaves you wondering why this caused him to break his golden rule.

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Review – The latest ‘Robin Hood’ is a bizarre update of the classic tale

12/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: 12, Eve Hewson, F Murray Abraham, Jamie Dornan, Jamie Foxx, November 2018, Otto Bathurst, Paul Anderson, Rating: Poop, Robin Hood, Taron Egerton, Tim Minchin

Taron Egerton dons a hood and wields a bow and arrow as the iconic outlaw Robin Hood in this weird new take on the material.

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Review – Submarine thriller ‘Hunter Killer’ is too dull to find campy charm

15/11/201819/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alexander Diachenko, Caroline Goodall, Certificate: 15, Common, Donovan Marsh, Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, Hunter Killer, Linda Cardellini, Michael Nyqvist, Mikhail Gorevoy, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Thriller, Zane Holtz

Gerard Butler plays a rugged, maverick submarine captain trying to avert nuclear war in the big, stupid action thriller Hunter Killer.

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Review – ‘Venom’ is a defiantly unique adventure into superhero madness

04/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Certificate: 15, Horror, Jenny Slate, Michelle Lee, Michelle Williams, October 2018, Rating: Pop, Reid Scott, Riz Ahmed, Ruben Fleischer, Superhero, Tom Hardy, Venom, Woody Harrelson

Tom Hardy does not one, but two funny voices as he delivers one of the weirdest superhero movies in recent memory.

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Review – Mark Wahlberg is even more smug than usual in ‘Mile 22’

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Carlo Alban, Certificate: 18, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Mark Wahlberg, Mile 22, Peter Berg, Poorna Jagannathan, Rating: Poop, Ronda Rousey, September 2018, Thriller

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg join forces again, but deliver a thriller devoid of thrills with Mile 22.

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Review – ‘The Predator’ loses any sense of fun in a noxious macho haze

21/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alfie Allen, Boyd Holbrook, Certificate: 15, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Rating: Poop, Sci-Fi, September 2018, Shane Black, Sterling K Brown, The Predator, Trevante Rhodes, Yvonne Strahovski

With Shane Black at the helm and a cast full of lads, The Predator is so blokey that it can’t muster even a moment of genuine emotion.

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Review – ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ misses the action-comedy balance

04/09/201804/09/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, August 2018, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Gillian Anderson, Hasan Minhaj, Ivanna Sakhno, Justin Theroux, Kate McKinnon, Mila Kunis, Rating: Poop, Sam Heughan, Susanna Fogel, The Spy Who Dumped Me

Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are left all at sea in a movie that can’t make up its mind when it comes to being funny or hard-edged.

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Review – Denzel turns dull vigilante in ‘The Equalizer 2’

17/08/201809/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Antoine Fuqua, Ashton Sanders, August 2018, Bill Pullman, Certificate: 15, Denzel Washington, Melissa Leo, Orson Bean, Pedro Pascal, Rating: Poop, Sakina Jaffrey, The Equalizer, The Equalizer 2, Thriller

Denzel Washington is back as the vigilante nobody really wanted to see again in The Equalizer 2.

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