It brings me no joy to report that the long-awaited Old Guard sequel, The Old Guard 2, was a total let-down. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend it for my "What to Watch" this week. However, in preparation for The Old Guard 2 release on Netflix last week, I did rewatch the first Old Guard movie from 2020. That, I can wholeheartedly recommend....
In the lead-up to the unveiling of James Gunn's highly anticipated Superman, the upcoming Fourth of July long holiday weekend is a perfect time to dial-up director Richard Donner's 1978 masterpiece, Superman. This rich and compelling origin story will astonish you by how wondrous and awe-inspiring it is, and make you rue the rise of the Marvel...
Jaws is the perfect Fourth of July movie. The iconic Steven Spielberg film about a killer shark that unleashes unbridled chaos on a local beach community is a rewatchable summer classic. From John Williams' indelible score to the memorable performances by Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, Jaws, which is now streaming on Peacock and...
Who doesn't love a good heist? Now is the perfect time to tune into Now You See Me, which is streaming now on Netflix. The 2012 film follows a team of illusionists who manage to pull off unbelievable tricks, all while somehow managing to steal from the rich and give back to their audiences. But the modern-day Robin Hoods are on the run from an FBI...
It's Final Reckoning week at long last, and if teaser trailers are anything to go by, a rewatch of Mission: Impossible III may be in order before heading to the cinema this weekend. The third installment of the franchise, released in 2006, was director J.J. Abrams' first feature film and once again starred Tom Cruise as agent Ethan Hunt. In it,...
As a fan of the video games, I was thrilled to see Tom Holland was cast to lead Ruben Fleischer's film adaptation of Uncharted as Nathan Drake. The 2022 feature is your standard globe-trotting action film that follows two treasure hunters – in this case, Nate and Victor Sullivan (Wahlberg) – who set out on an ambitious heist to steal Ferdinand...
Action movie diehards have been salivating over the prospect of a Tom Hardy/Gareth Evans team-up since Havoc was first announced way back in 2021. It's been a long, mysterious wait — no one really seems willing to talk about why this sat on the shelf for nearly 4 years — but now that it's out in the universe, we can breathe a sigh of relief....
What better way to get ready for Thunderbolts* is there than to rewatch a movie that makes a bunch of toxic Marvel fanboys mad? Yes, that's right, I'm talking about Black Widow. With the release of Thunderbolts* bringing characters like Red Guardian (David Harbour), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and TaskMaster (Olga Kurylenko) center stage, now...
After having watched every film in the X-Men franchise, I can say once and for all X-Men: Apocalypse surprisingly holds up as the best of the later installments. The 2016 film, streaming on Disney+ with the complete collection of X-Men movies, takes place in the '80s when the first and all-powerful mutant, Apocalypse, builds a lethal team to...