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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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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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