“What’s your favourite scary movie?” goes the traditional question. If you’ve got any sense, it won’t be SCREAM (2022), a woeful waste of time that likely has Wes Craven spinning in his grave. Twenty-five years after the original Woodsboro massacre, another Ghostface killer has emerged, drawing Dewey (David Arquette), Gail Weathers (Courtney Cox) and Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) back to the…

You can always tell a movie’s good when one of the characters clumsily inserts the movie’s name into dialogue. It worked great in STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT and it works just as well here in ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS. Zoey Davis (Taylor Russell) and Ben Miller (Logan Miller), survivors of the events of the first ESCAPE ROOM are determined to expose Minos, the murderous company behind…

Perhaps not since “Star Trek” has a franchise had such a long, unbroken continuity across multiple TV series and movies. This latest “Charlie’s Angels” incarnation is just that, a continuation, with the only erasure of the past being of Bill Murray and, to a lesser extent, Bernie Mac.

As Bosley prepares to bid farewell to the Townsend Agency, which has now expanded to an international network,…

As the members of a wealthy and powerful family gather at their stately home to celebrate the wedding of their firstborn son, bride Grace (Samara Weaving) is nervous about her new family accepting her. With the wedding service behind her, there’s only one more thing to attend to: a quaint family tradition of choosing a game to play. But when Grace selects the card which reads ‘hide and seek’, she…

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Rambo – number five

One, two, three, four, five If you harm Rambo’s niece you won’t stay alive When the drug lords come from south the border They think they can take John Rambo But ain’t ready for the slaughter

Living life on a quiet farm Rambo makes sure his family comes to no harm But when his niece wants to see her dad in Mexico Rambo pleads with her cos he really…

There’s a laziness to “Escape Room” that’s hard to shake off. From its cookie-cutter characters to its predictable checkbox approach to disposing of its cast, it can’t seem to find the will to try and differentiate itself from its obvious influences.

When six strangers receive mysterious invitations to participate in an Escape Room, they quickly find themselves trapped in a maze of deadly traps…

“Crazy Rich Asians” may open with some awful British racism, but it’s an effective shorthand way of introducing fearsome matriarch Eleanor Young (Michelle Yeo) and putting us firmly in the Young family’s corner. And it’s a necessary step too because we’re about to embark on a visually lavish exploration of the trials and tribulations of the lifestyles of the obscenely rich and wantonly famous,…

Released in the UK the same day another leader saw plans to increase her power and turn the world to her will falter, “The Mummy” suggests Universal’s “Dark Universe” gambit will meet a similarly ignominious fate. Again. When solider-of-fortune Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) stumbles across an Egyptian tomb after an air strike, he unwittingly releases the vengeful undead spirit of Ahmanet (Sofia…

We may be marking the return of Xander Cage, but did anyone really notice he was away? 2002’s “xXx” was a dumb but fun extreme action adventure, a 90’s ‘attitude’ hangover given a last millennial hurrah. Cage never felt as iconic as the film believed him to be, hence his easy replacement by Ice T’s Darius Stone in 2005’s “xXx2: The Next Level”. But he clearly means something to Vin Diesel who,…