Tag: action

GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION Review: Gerard Butler Leads Somber Entry in Post-Apocalyptic Series

Morena Baccarin also stars in director Ric Roman Waugh's sequel.

Now Streaming: TEHRAN S3, Spy Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Niv Sultan reprises her starring role in the thriller series, alongside Shaun Toub and Shila Omni, joined by Hugh Laurie.

SIRĀT Official Trailer: Oliver Laxe's 'Meditative And Loudly Disorienting Journey' in Cinemas February

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

ANACONDA Review: Jack Black & Paul Rudd's Meta Take On A ClaSSSSic

A quartet of loveable losers strike out into the Amazon jungle in a foolhardy attempt to reboot a ‘90s creature feature classic in director Tom Gormican’s meta narrative comedy, Anaconda. Ron (Paul Rudd) is an actor whose career isn’t turning...

THE COPENHAGEN TEST Review: Under Surveillance

Simu Liu, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian d'Arcy James, Mark O'Brien, and Kathleen Chalfant star in the espionage thriller, debuting on Peacock TV.

Playback: Park Chan-wook, Pushed to the Limit, from JOINT SECURITY AREA to NO OTHER CHOICE

Park Chan-wook studies how vengeance and obsession can narrow the mind, reducing problems to a single, violent answer. The Korean director returns to characters consumed by the promise of moral clarity. Park is perhaps best known for his exacting compositions...

Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror

Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'

Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: FALLOUT Returns, CASTLE ROCK Chills, THE GREAT FLOOD Rushes In, BREAKDOWN: 1975 Recalls

Plus, movies making their streaming debut: 'One Battle After Another,' Megadoc,' 'Queens of the Dead,' 'Him,' 'Ne Zha 2.'

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Review: Another Visual Marvel Undercut by Sloppy Storytelling, Underdeveloped Characters, and Cliched Dialogue

Despite their supposed lack of pop cultural impact or influence, the James Cameron-directed Avatar films (2009, 2022) have collectively grossed more than five billion dollars, suggesting that, whatever the series’s inability to break through to the terminally online, Avatar and...

AMSTERDAMNED II Review: A Playful Late Sequel

Let's start with a bit of history. Back in the eighties, we had this young upstart director in the Netherlands who did things everybody told him you couldn't do. His name was Dick Maas and I'll be damned if he...

Criterion in March 2026: Tsui Hark's THE BLADE, Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, More

Springtime -- specifically, March 2026 -- brings many good gifts for home video enthusiasts from The Criterion Collection, beginning with Tsui Hark's superlative action epic The Blade (1995) in 4K (?!). I love the official description, so allow me to...

SCARLET Review: If Hamlet Was a Sword-Wielding Warrior Princess Having a Boss Fight in the Afterlife

A young woman finds herself in a horrifying afterlife, where many things look like our familiar reality, but with a few macabre twists. A brief flashback interlude informs us that the heroine is Scarlet, a medieval-era princess who tried to...

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Official Trailer: Big, Animated Sci-fi Action in Canadian Cinemas This January

Warner Bros. and Cineplex Pictures here in Canada are releasing the animated sci-fi action film, All You Need is Kill, in theaters on January 16th. The official trailer came out today, you can check it out below.    Set in...

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME Poster & Trailer Debut: Samara Weaving Returns in Horror Comedy Sequel

Samara Weaving returns as Grace the doomed bride in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the sequel to Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's 2019 hit horror comedy, Ready or Not. The poster and first trailer debuted earlier today. Check them both out...

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR Review: Cycles and Consequences

Uma Thurman stars in Quentin Tarantino's revenge epic.

Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION

Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'

Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery

Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.

Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT

Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...

ZOOTOPIA 2 Review: Sequel Ups the Laughs, Set Pieces, and Positive Messaging

While it’s far from a shock that Zootopia, Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning, billion-dollar-earning, box-office hit, spawned a not-unexpected sequel, taking the better part of a decade to reach IP-ready audiences certainly qualifies as one (a shock, that is).  ...