Category: Films

Certificate 12A, 136 minutes Director: F. Gary Gray Stars: Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson The Fate of the Furious, also called Fast & Furious 8 and Fast 8, is the eighth instalment in the Fast & Furious franchise. It opens with a classic American muscle car, a red Impala, heading to a car meet…

Certificate 12A, 136 minutes Director: James Gunn Stars: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy. Why is it called Vol. 2, which is a more unusual name for a sequel? Well the soundtrack is the Awesome Mix Vol. 2, so this makes…

Certificate 12A, 107 minutes Director: Rupert Sanders Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano Ghost in the Shell is based on the manga series by Masamune Shirow and is part of a fairly extensive franchise based on the original books, although said franchise has up until now been largely Japanese in nature. It is set…

Certificate 15, 90 minutes Director: Ben Wheatley Stars: Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer Free Fire opens at night with two men in a Winnebago, both Irish. The RV is being driven by Bernie (Enzo Cilenti) whilst the other, Stevo (Sam Riley), looks a bit worse for wear. He has a black eye and apparently…

Certificate 15, 104 minutes Director: Daniel Espinosa Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds Life is a technohorror film set in the near now. It opens with a probe travelling through space when it encounters a (rather improbably, outside a comet’s tail) dense patch of (ridiculously large) bits of rock. In reality, enough to completely…

Certificate 15, 104 minutes Director: Jordan Peele Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford Get Out opens with a man walking through some suburbs at night whilst speaking on his mobile phone. He appears to be lost when a white car passes him going in one direction. The car turns around in the street and…

Certificate 15, 137 minutes Director: James Mangold Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen Logan starts with Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) asleep in the back of a limo when he is awakened by noises coming from outside it. Exiting the limo, he finds several gang bangers attempting to remove the car’s wheels in order to steal…

Certificate 12A, 120 minutes Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson Kong: Skull Island is the latest film in the King Kong franchise. It opens to the sound of machine gun fire, somewhere over the South Pacific in 1944. A man is seen screaming as he falls from the sky, then…

Certificate U, 104 minutes Director: Chris McKay Stars: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson The Lego Batman Movie is, perhaps, a sequel to The Lego Movie, although there is no real connection between the two films and it’s more of a spin-off, and it opens with Batman – voiced by Will Arnett, reprising his role…

Certificate 15, 122 minutes Director: Chad Stahelski Stars: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane John Wick: Chapter 2 is the sequel to John Wick. It opens with a man on a motorbike being chased through the streets of New York by an American muscle car. The biker eventually ploughs into the side of the muscle…