The Great Raid (2005) – Review

It’s hardly a revelation to point out that WWII liked to sprawl (it was a world war, after all), and so by definition, a lot

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Nobody 2 (2025) – Review

Yes, I totally admit that when I saw the first Nobody, I was completely caught up in the shameless, middle-aged, wish fulfillment of a story

Gladiator II (2024) – Review

In an era of impressively belated legacy sequels, you’d think it would be tough to surprise me with yet another, sudden return of a cinematic

Soldier (1998) – Review

Some of you out there in internet-land may be too young to remember this but there was a hot minute there where the prospect of

Gladiator (2000) – Review

At one point in Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s epic exhuming and re-animating of the entire sword and sandal genre, Russell Crowe’s stoic general, Maximus Decimus Meridius,

Nobody (2021) – Review

The notion of an older gentleman knuckling down to fetch a beating to various bad guys is hardly a new thing in Hollywood. I mean,

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) – Review

The behind-the-scenes stories behind Zack Snyder’s version of DC’s premier super-team are fittingly legend, but finally, mercifully, after a production history as jagged as one

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) – Review

To use the catchphrase of floundering oil tycoon wannabe and chief Wonder Woman 1984 villain Maxwell Lord, “Life is good, but it can be better!”.

Wonder Woman (2017) – Review

And so finally, it came to pass that the movie Gods finally gave their blessings and bequeathed a modern, solo, movie release to the last,