Awareness is a Spanish sci-fi action flick on Amazon Prime Video about people with psychic powers and the factions who want to stop or control them. You’ve seen this movie before… but it’s pretty sure you haven’t. It thinks it’s … Continue reading
Joke’s on me. I thought this was the John Wick Ballerina spinoff I’d heard about. But don’t be a fool like me – that’s a 2024 American action flick, not a 2023 S. Korean “action” flick. Ballerina is not, in … Continue reading
You’d think all the mocking FantFourStick got for doing “the sequel number is in the title so you know it’s cool”, the makers of Expend4bles would have reconsidered. But given how generic and boring the movie they made was, at … Continue reading
Oof… I’ve seen a handful of Indian pictures imported to the US over the past few years and this one didn’t work for me at all… though perhaps more exposure to these actors and this director would have had made … Continue reading
King of Killers is a bad film… but there’s a chance it’s bad in a way that could entertain. It’s a tough guy pulp actioner that made my eyes roll… but I have a low tolerance for unironic tough guy … Continue reading
The Equalizer franchise has its highs and lows for me. I thought the first one was pretty good but I hated, hated, hated the second. So this time around? Closer to the first… but not quite there. After equalizing some … Continue reading
I’m aware of Monkey and Journey to the West story in broad strokes but I’ve never seen any filmed adaptation. I was curious but skeptical about this Netflix animation so I decided to give it go. The film is about … Continue reading
Compared to some other glossy Netflix spy/action flicks, Heart of Stone is pretty ok. It’s no Extraction with its minimalist plot but maximalist action but it’s also no Red Notice with its stupidity and… umm… it’s stupidity. You could do … Continue reading
Hidden Strike is a new Netflix action/comedy starring two human cartoons with very very different comic stylings. I was rooting for this flick… it really wants to entertain and certainly Jackie Chan and Joh Cena are trying. But the script … Continue reading
Didn’t we just do an animated TMNT in 2022? Yes, yes we did… and it was fine. But we didn’t do THIS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And, sure, it’s yet another franchise reboot with a whole new art style… … Continue reading