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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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DVD Review – ‘Beast of Burden’ traps Daniel Radcliffe in a cockpit

13/08/201809/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, August 2018, Beast of Burden, Certificate: 15, Daniel Radcliffe, DVD, Grace Gummer, Jesper Ganslandt, Pablo Schreiber, Rating: Poop, Robert Wisdom, Thriller

Daniel Radcliffe goes it alone for most of drug trafficking thriller Beast of Burden, which is set largely within the cockpit of his tiny plane.

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Review – ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ is Marvel at its most blandly disposable

05/08/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, August 2018, Bobby Cannavale, Certificate: 12, Evangeline Lilly, Hannah John-Kamen, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Marvel, Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Randall Park, Rating: Poop, Superhero, Walton Goggins

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly take centre stage for Ant-Man and the Wasp, which follows up Infinity War with something lighter.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Flesh + Blood’ is a muddy, grim medieval adventure

03/08/201805/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1985, 2018, Action, Adventure, August 2018, Certificate: 18, Fernando Hilbeck, Flesh + Blood, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Verhoeven, Rating: Pop, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson

Paul Verhoeven’s plague-riddled medieval adventure Flesh + Blood, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is an uncomfortable watch.

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Review – A good idea falls flat amid the neon lights in ‘Hotel Artemis’

29/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Brian Tyree Henry, Certificate: 15, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista, Drew Pearce, Hotel Artemis, Jeff Goldblum, Jenny Slate, Jodie Foster, July 2018, Rating: Poop, Sofia Boutella, Sterling K Brown, Thriller, Zachary Quinto

Drew Pearce squanders a really fun idea in Hotel Artemis, which is like John Wick if it had no sense of confidence or control in its tone.

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DVD Review – ‘Proud Mary’ wastes Taraji P Henson’s badass charisma

28/07/201828/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Babak Najafi, Billy Brown, Certificate: 15, Crime, Danny Glover, DVD, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, July 2018, Rating: Poop, Taraji P Henson, Thriller

Henson is a great choice for an action lead, but Proud Mary is a dramatically deficient crime thriller with limp action sequences.

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Review – ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ weaponises Tom Cruise’s madness

25/07/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Certificate: 12, Christopher McQuarrie, Henry Cavill, July 2018, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Rating: Pop, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames

Tom Cruise has no fear, and that’s what Christopher McQuarrie uses to make Mission: Impossible – Fallout a wild action ride.

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DVD Review – Even Nicolas Cage is drowned out by bullets in ‘211’

24/07/201828/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, 211, Action, Alexandra Dinu, Certificate: 15, Crime, Dwayne Cameron, July 2018, Michael Rainey Jr, Nicolas Cage, Ori Pfeffer, Shari Watson, Sophie Skelton, Thriller, York Shackleton

Nicolas Cage can barely be heard over the flying bullets and blaring muzzles of 211 – a heist actioner that never comes alive.

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Review – The subdued silliness of ‘Skyscraper’ suggests The Rock doesn’t know his own strength

22/07/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Certificate: 12, Chin Han, Dwayne Johnson, Hannah, July 2018, Neve Campbell, Noah Taylor, Pablo Schreiber, Quinlivan, Rating: Pop, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Roland Møller, Skyscraper

Dwayne Johnson dangles from a burning skyscraper by his own prosthetic leg, and yet Skyscraper still isn’t silly enough.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Boondock Saints’ is blood-soaked vigilantism with a darkly comic edge

11/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Billy Connolly, Blu-ray, Carlo Rota, Certificate: 18, David Della Rocco, July 2018, Norman Reedus, Rating: Pop, Ron Jeremy, Sean Patrick Flanery, The Boondock Saints, Thriller, Troy Duffy, Willem Dafoe

Troy Duffy’s controversial vigilante thriller has lost none of its edge in the 20 years since it first exploded onto screens.

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DVD Review – Giant ant movie ‘It Came From The Desert’ knows exactly what it is

24/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alex Mills, Andrew Horton, Callum McGowan, Certificate: 15, Comedy, DVD, Harry Lister Smith, Horror, It Came From the Desert, June 2018, Mark Arnold, Marko Mäkilaakso, Rating: Pop, Vanessa Grasse

It’s big, it’s stupid and it’s obviously bargain basement filmmaking, but it’s hard not to enjoy a knowingly ridiculous giant bug movie.

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