Labyrinth (2012)

Labyrinth (2012)
Rating: ★★
Jan 20, 2014Cross-Historical Search for the Holy Grail
Christopher (Creep, Triangle, Black Death) Smith has become one of the most underrated genre directors so I was anticipating his first venture into tv but this disappointingly feels like only a commercial project. The cross-historical quest for the Holy Grail story reads like warmed over Da Vinci Code

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 7, 2015Space Opera
The Wachowskis set out to make a rollicking space opera adventure in the Star Wars vein. As always, the elevate every genre they take on with a creativity light years of any competitor – the film is packed with astonishing action sequences and wild, mind-expanding ideas

Kill Command (2016)

Kill Command (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 15, 2017Killer Robots
Modestly-made British film about a unit of soldiers on an exercise who become hunted by killer robots. With effects that easily rival those of bigger-budgeted Hollywood films, this gets down to the business at hand and produces an excellent and very intensive little film

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 29, 2018Spy/Action Film
The sixth of the Mission: Impossible films. Not the best of the series but Tom Cruise and associates have everything polished to an expertly honed formula by now and the film is a kinetic ride of intensive and often jaw-dropping action sequences

The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)

The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Rating: ★★
Oct 4, 2025Comic-Book Superheroes
After several other film incarnations that went nowhere, The Fantastic Four make their first appearance in The MCU. The film creates a wonderful retro world of 1960s futurism based on their original comic-books for them to inhabit