Tag: action
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Invincible Season 4 Review — Still the Best Superhero Comic Adaptation on TV
Invincible Season 4 improves its animation, deepens its characters, and raises the stakes with the Viltrumite War—cementing it as the best American comic adaptation on TV.
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Antihero by Gregg Hurwitz: Machismo In A Time Capsule
Antihero channels a time-capsuled strain of late-’80s and ’90s adventure fiction, where violence is aesthetic, masculinity is armor, and survival is never in doubt.
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‘Shelter’ – Jason Statham’s Latest Actioner Is Far Too Run-Of-The-Mill To Be Memorable
Jason Statham goes into protective mode but that may be the only good part of the film.
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In Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands the Predator Wins
Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands flips the hunt, following a young Yautja on a rite-of-passage that turns him into the underdog hero. Kinetic action, sharp world-building, and Elle Fanning’s affecting synth counterbalance make this PG-13 entry…
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Episode Appetizer: May I Ask for One Final Thing? [Episodes 3 and 4]
I’m glad I stuck with May I Ask for One Final Thing? It’s more than a brawler’s delight, and here’s why
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Eyes of Wakanda Dives Into Espionage and Myth Across MCU History
Stylish visuals and sharp action animate Wakanda’s secret history.
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Season Appetizer: Kaiju No. 8 – Season Two [Episodes 1 and 2]
If you thought the first season of Kaiju No. 8 was wild, buckle up—this monster buffet is just getting started.
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Bad Blood and Battle Scars: ‘The Old Guard 2’ Delivers Mythic Mayhem
Old friends leave scars in The Old Guard 2
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Predator: Killer of Killers Brings the Hunt Across History – And It Rules
I must say I’m sitting here in a bit of awe at how much I liked Predator: Killer of Killers, the surprise new animated anthology film coming to Hulu and Disney+.
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Family, Fury, and Fast Cars: ‘Duster’ Brings ’70s Crime Drama and Hijinks to Life
A cherry-red Plymouth, a charming getaway driver, and a secret agent woman with an impeccable ‘fro collide in ‘Duster’
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‘The Last of Us’ S2, ‘Sinners’, ‘The Amateur’, ‘Warfare’, ‘G20’, ‘Lazarus’
The Last of Us S2 has taken over our Rioters’ brains this week, who provide us with a spoilerific breakdown of the first episode. They also get into Sinners, The Amateur, Warfare, G20, and Lazarus,…
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Is G20 A Fierce, Fun, and Frenzied Ride? Yes, Madame President
G20 is a wild ride that’s a whole lot of fun. (Even if it says “nope” to logic) we’re riding with this electrifying, adrenaline-fueled thriller
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Batman Returns: Although Things Explode It Really is a Christmas Movie
Look, people, Bruce Wayne can’t just fix everything with his money because there are other evil rich people who need to be punched in the face.
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Watch Julian Go 1v1 on ‘Critics Debate’: Gladiator 2
The Darkseid Rioter, Julian Lytle, Joins Critic Box as Guest Critic for Gladiator 2 Debate versus Joonatan Itkonen
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Gladiator II: Denzel Washington Steals the Show in Ridley Scott’s Sprawling Epic
So it’s kind of wild that we are getting a sequel to a film that was released twenty-four years ago. I know it happens, but did we really want and desire a sequel to Gladiator?
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Transformers One: A Vibrant, Animated Reboot That Honors the Classics and Delivers New Thrills
To celebrate the Transformers‘ 40th anniversary, Hasbro looks like it is starting another film franchise with Transformers One. It’s a film that tells another version of the origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron and how…
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The Killer (2024)
I’m not usually a big fan of remakes of action films, especially ones from other countries like Hong Kong, as they typically lose something as US filmmakers try to reinterpret it for this Western US…
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Deadpool and Wolverine – Julian’s Review
All right, Trill Believers, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has had some troubles lately with the fans’ feelings overall through some of the shows, some actions by an actor, and just not packing them in the…
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Family Matters in Bad Boys: Ride or Die
A few years ago, I started using the term “misery parade” to describe the books, series, and films that gear up on tragedy and press the accelerator. That term is perfect for these times. Much…
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DUNE: Part Two – Once Again Arrakis Decides the Fate of the Universe
The number of people who were crushed at the end of DUNE: Part One is astronomical. If you’ve never read the books, you had no idea that Denis Villeneuve couldn’t possibly complete more than a…
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Argylle Review: My Grandmother Would Call it Foolishness (and She’d Be Right)
“Complexity is good in a spy caper,” you’ll need to chant that phrase for most of the 2 hours and 19 minutes runtime. In the realm of not-quite-right action comedies, there are falters and there…
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MONKEY MAN trailer: Glory to Hanuman
Adrenaline junkies, come out and play-aaah! Let’s watch the trailer for Dev Patel’s Monkey Man together ’cause its got more heatwaves than a car chase in a desert. Here’s the twist: Patel isn’t just the…
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Blue Beetle: The Power of Who You Are
Blue Beetle officially lands in theaters tomorrow. It’s a good movie to see because it’s fun and it’s about family, but also because director Ángel Manuel Soto and writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer explore how fraught achieving…
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Andor: A Bold and Gritty Evolution of the Star Wars Universe
The story of the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance through the character of Cassian Andor from Rogue One
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Atomic Blonde – Red Band Trailer and G**damn
Watch the new trailer for Atomic Blonde.