Companion (2025) Plus/Minus Review

Rebecca offers up a comprehensive write-up of the 2025 science-fiction hit ‘Companion’ in a new format we’re calling ‘Plus/Minus’.

Spoilers ahead.

Eddington (2025) Review

Ari Aster’s latest film, Eddington, diverges from his horror roots to explore a COVID-era neo-Western. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a wannabe mayor navigating political extremes, the film offers dark humor and commentary on the impact of social media. Despite its polarising reception, the film showcases Aster’s typically bold storytelling and visually striking cinematography.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) Review

Tom Cruise is back as Jack Reacher, this time in an adaptation of the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series, ‘Never Go Back’. The first film was an awesome and underrated action flick with solid performances and an enthralling mystery, how does this one compare?

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Review

By balancing the camp with a cool setup and great CGI, the fifth(!) film in the Resident Evil film franchise might be the most fun entry yet.

London Has Fallen Review

Out now on DVD and Blu-ray, the sequel to 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen performs the old sequel trick of doing exactly what the first film did, only bigger. As is the case with a lot of b-movie action films, you’ll be asking yourself a lot of questions once the credits roll for London Has Fallen. Questions […]

100 Words or Less – The Mechanic

Title – The Mechanic Released – 2011 Director – Simon West Starring – Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland Review – The Mechanic is much better than it has any right to be. What might seems like a dumb Jason Statham vehicle is actually…well it’s still pretty dumb but it’s a very well-made dumb action film, thanks to two […]

The Trust (2016) Review

“You know the drill.” Here we are once again; staring into the abyss that is Nicolas Cage’s VOD career. The one time Mongolian dinosaur skull owner returns to Vegas, the home of his Oscar winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas for The Trust, a tiny movie with tiny movie star; Elijah Wood. Quite surprisingly, The Trust is pretty good, great even, […]

Green Room Review

This will all be over soon, gentlemen Never have I been to the cinema and heard the same gasps that I heard during Green Room. We’re British, that’s not what we do. We leave the clapping during the credits and hollering at the screen to our friends across the pond. But during certain scenes in […]

100 Words or Less – No Escape

Surprisingly awesome.

CeX Review – Dying of the Light

The blog has been a little empty as of late. It’s the essay writing time of year. Here’s a review I wrote of the interesting Dying of the Light for CeX. I couldn’t help but post it. Enjoy! Dying of the Light (2014) Review Things have been going in a strange direction for Nicolas Cage as of late. The […]