This post is written as part of @noir_or_never and @realweegiemidge‘s Bond Not Bond Blogathon Oscar and BAFTA-winning actor Sean Connery was not a great actor. No, hear me out: he wasn’t. At least, not in the way, say, Daniel Day-Lewis or Meryl Streep are great actors. Connery never possessed the ability to disappear into a role or to embody a character completely – at least not when that…

There’s a deep-rooted discomfort at the heart of “BlacKkKlansman” and it’s the fact that instead of being a historical, true story poking cautionary fun at the ignorance of the past, it instead feels like a howl of furious irony at the recidivism of modern-day America.

In 1979, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), Colorado Springs’ first African-American police officer successfully managed to…

The unstoppable Tom Cruise, Movie StarTM is back in 2018’s best action movie bar none. “Fallout” completes a “Fast & Furious”-style transformation of the franchise and leaves its famously diminutive leading man head and shoulders above the rest of the action competition.

When a mission to recover three stolen uranium cores is interrupted by the radicalised remnants of The Syndicate, Ethan Hunt…

Charting the origins of Osama Bin Laden and the formation of al-Qaeda from the 1990s through to the tragic events that unfolded on September the 11th, “The Looming Tower” is a real-life historical “Homeland”. It peers behind the intelligence curtain and reveals the internal squabbles and intense rivalry between the FBI and the CIA that ultimately lead to the downfall of the World Trade Centre and…

Hoot hoot! What a bounty I’ve sunk my claws into this week. I’ve had a successful hunt and brought back trailers aplenty to feed you, my little Hootenanny fledgelings! Let’s dig in!

The moustache that defeated the Justice League. That’s a little unfair, as the moustache may have been a CGI lightning rod for mockery but here in all its…

Not since Disney/ Pixar’s “Cars” has an animated movie presented such an incoherent and illogical fictional world as “The Boss Baby” does. Facing an existential threat, Baby Corp sends an undercover operative (Alec Baldwin) to live with the Templeton family to find out what the Templeton parents know about Puppy Co’s plan to launch a new breed of puppy. But when the Templeton’s son Timothy (Tobey…

Back for a fifth instalment, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” finds Ethan Hunt facing off against two distinct threats. One is The Syndicate, a shadow networks which styles itself as ‘the anti-IMF’; the other is from the American government and the CIA who are pressing to have the IMF shut down. The latter threat is not only understandable, but long overdue. Although consistently…