That was pretty silly. But an enjoyable kind of silly. A highly contagious, fatal fungus from space is sealed within a forgotten military bunker. But when it starts to break out, hapless heroes have to save the world. Cold Storage, directed by Jonny Campbell, stars Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Liam Neeson…
Tag: action
Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Your mileage will certainly vary with this one. A man from the future bursts into an American diner and recruits several customers at random. His intent? To save the world from impending AI catastrophe. Is he talking nonsense? Can the team succeed if it is true? Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is directed by…
Review: Mercy (2026)
Silly, cliché, and slightly disturbing. Mercy ultimately isn’t anything good. A law enforcer finds himself on trial for the murder of his wife. His judge, jury, and executioner is a powerful AI program. Mercy stars Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, who both must have needed to pay off private yachts or something. Timur Bekmambetov directs…
Review: Iron Lung
For a debut actor, writer, director, distributor, it is remarkable how good this actually is. The stars in the universe are disappearing, humans are disappearing. So begins a radical search for answers and solutions on deadly worlds. One such world is a moon of blood, and the only way to explore its depths is in…
Review: Avatar – Fire and Ash (3D)
What is this all for, James? While Jake Sully and his family grieve for the losses from their last battle, war escalates as Quaritch allies with the violent Ash Clan. Three hours and fifteen minutes, summarised in a single sentence. I want to get on board with what director James Cameron is doing with Avatar,…
Review: The Running Man (2025)
It is fine? But for being an Edgar Wright film, just “fine” feels wrong. In a dystopian America, jobless father Ben Richards signs up to the televised death game The Running Man to support his family. Can he survive the game with everyone out to kill him? The Running Man is yet another 2025 movie…
Review: Predator – Badlands
Is this the gentrification of the Predator franchise? A young warrior from the Youtja clan seeks to prove himself worthy by defeating a ferocious beast on a deadly planet. But his skills are lacking, and he is forced to work beside a mysterious synthetic lifeform. Predator: Badlands is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who has taken…
Review: TRON – Ares
Well, that’s the TRON era over I guess. Short lived. Two competing tech companies race to unlock Kevin Flynn’s “permanence code”; a way to make AI last forever in our world. Ares, a defence and hacking program made by Dillenger corp, is one such AI. But he has started to question his master’s motives. “Sequel”…
Review: Flight Risk
Writing film scripts must be hard. A targeted witness is transported in a small plane across Alaska. The marshal in charge of his safety doesn’t check the identification on their pilot however, and some shenanigans takes place. Flight Risk released late 2024 in the US, and early 2025 in the UK. Notedly directed by the…
Review: Prey (2022)
Making me a believer of the Predator series. In the 1700s, an Apache tribe finds itself at the mercy of an otherworldly hunter. Released in 2022, mere months “after” the Covid pandemic, Prey was and continues to be a Disney+ exclusive. It was never released in cinemas. The rather teasing title betrays that this film…