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It is 1917, WWI, trench warfare continues between the English and the Germans in the flatlands of northern France. Lance corporal Tom Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) is ordered to deliver a letter to the front-line warning of a German ambush they are about to run into and 1600 lives are at risk, including Blake's brother's. To...

If you are getting a bit bored waiting for yet another installment of the Fast & Furious to come along (part 9 is to be released May 2020), Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans '66) will keep you entertained until then. One problem: it will make Vin Diesel and his never-ending 'family' spiel look decidedly...

When you find out that a movie is directed by Michael Bay, you know you are in for a high octane action flick with explosions... lots of explosions... And when you are going to see a Ryan Reynolds movie, you know you can expect a special kind of humour - mischievous is one way to...

A movie poster headlining Scorsese, De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci means you instantly know you are in for a mobster movie. How different from other mafia movies it is though. Instead of a thrill ride or glorification, we experience the mundanity, if you will, of everyday violence, murder, extortion, bribery, fraud and a variety of...

'A group of strangers find themselves locked in a confined space together and hope to puzzle their way out in order to survive' is not exactly a new premise. Decent examples include Cube, which managed to get three movies out of the concept (only the first one is good), and Saw, which is is up...

We never find out why or how, but the world's population has been wiped out entirely and turned the planet into a poisonous wasteland. Apparently, some of humanity had anticipated this and created a a facility that houses thousands of embryos to repopulate earth with. This facility is run by an Articial Intelligence, which presents...

We have seen quite a few movies set in a bleak dystopian future in recent times. Captive State sees the population living in a surveillance state following an alien invasion that took place a decade ago, resulting in the world's governments surrendering to these aliens who now deplete the planet of its resources. The aliens...

Man vs Frozen Wilderness has been done before of course. Leonardo di Caprio tries to survive the South Dakotan winter, and bears, in The Revenant; Liam Neeson fights the Alaskan cold, and wolves, in The Grey; we don't exactly know where Mads Mikkelsen is, but he is trying to survive the cold, and polar bears,...

Wrestling is not a very big sport in Europe, and also in the UK it was largely marginalised when it disappeared from mainstream TV in the '90s. Fighting With My Family tells the true story of one family which didn't lose their dedication to the sport: The Knights. Dad 'Rowdy' Ricky (Nick Frost) ran the...

A handful of directors are members of an exclusive club: those who make a US version of their own European movie. The most well-known, and most successful, is Hitchcock who remade his 1934 UK version of The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956, this time in the US with James Stewart and Doris Day,...