Highlander: Some Cult Classic Are Just Bad

Where to begin with this, having watched this as a boy and then again all these years later it does not hold up. You notice very quickly that the dub is out of synch with when the characters speak and the accents are noticeably distracting.

The plot makes very little sense and is told in such a way as to leave you for vast sections of the film without any knowledge whatsoever about what is going on.

The swordfighting is also really quite noticeable in a bad way with it missing the mark over and over again, it looks fake in important moments.

Overall, a waste of time.

0.5/5

Pros.

A great Queen soundtrack

Cons.

It makes no sense

The effects are awful

Its poorly made

It badly paced

It’s boring

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Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition: Titans Of Metal

Summary: one of the biggest bands in Metal History gets it’s own doc.

Musical documents can only go so far, they can’t cover everything which means they have to be selective about what they include. That leads to the first issue with the film some big events such as the Ozz Fest incident of 05 are not covered in the film. That said they do cover an awful lot of the most important moments.

It is interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff particularly the trip behind the Iron Curtain and what that represented both to the fans and the band. As well as the creation story behind Eddy that in and of itself is worth the price of admission.

Overall, a good band documentary that doesn’t go as far as you might want it to.

3/5

Pros.

The music

It gives you some good insight

You can see what the band means to each member

Cons

It doesn’t cover all of the important events

Pacing issues.

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Mortal Kombat 2: The Next Level

Summary: after surviving the assassination attempts in the first film Earth Realms fighters head to the Mortal Kombat tournament to determine the fate of Earth Realm.

First things first, we’ve seen some people on the right call this a bait and switch film or a girl boss film. They say this as Kitana is positioned as a prominent new character, however, the idea that she is the central character over Johnny Cage simply isn’t true. Rather than being a bait and switch narrative both Kitana and Johnny have parallel but interconnected heroes journeys. Both are vital to defeat Shao Khan at the end of the film.

The new characters, Jade, Kitana, Sindel, Johnny, Baraka are a mixed bag. Jade feels very one note and Tati Gabrielle cannot act to save her life, Sindel is barely in the film, and the choice to make Baraka a comedic support character is a bad idea. However, Karl Urban is great as Johnny Cage, and Adeline Rudolph is both emotive but also badass as Kitana. They will both be welcome additions to the roster going forward.

The fights are good for the most part though perhaps a little less impressive than the first film. The one thing that we would have preferred the film do which it doesn’t is make the deaths more permanent, yes you can have the zombie forms of the characters but to just bring back Kano so quickly seems a bit of a cop out. In the games they have to bring back the main characters game after game but here you could have let them die and then bring in other characters from across the rosters, there are more than enough.

Overall, a great popcorn film and if you like the games you’ll get a lot out of it.

4.5/5

Pros.

Lots of gore and fatalities

The new characters like Johnny and Kitana

The direction the series is heading in with annihilation seemingly the next port of call

The commitment to honour and reference the games

Seeing the Netherrealm.

Cons.

Jade, Baraka and Sindle are not well implemented.

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Punisher One More Kill: A Fear of Gareth Ennis

Summary: The MCU tried to adapt Welcome Back, Frank and does what it always does.

This is why the MCU can’t make a Blade film, sometimes people just want to see badass characters being badass, not processing trauma, not having a crying, just being cool. You’re making a comic book film/made for streaming one shot, for God sake.

The first half of this is Frank being sad, the amount of time wasted herein becomes more and more noticeable later.

The second half tries to give the people what they want but then just abruptly ends with no how do you do, to maybe be picked up in Spiderman Brand New Day.

John Wick understands the badass factor, Mortal Kombat understands the badass factor, the MCU is allergic.

Plus as has been memed heavily since there is a God awful CGI shot of Frank falling, wherein they swap the stuntman’s face with John’s and my my it looks terrible.

Overall, it’s about twenty minutes of goodness wrapped in 30 minutes of disappointment.

Pros.

Some cool Punisher action

It leaves you wanting more of the good bits

Cons

The sad Frank sequences

The ending

The CGI

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Rose of Nevada: A Very British Mystery

We were present at the BFI in 2025, wherein they showed this film, we then shelved this write up until the film was going to release wide which it is about to. -Editor note.

Possibly one of the best British mystery films ever made or certainly one of the best of modern memory. From the outset you can tell there is something not quite right about the world the film is in. It is hard to put your finger on quite what it is but you know when the ghost boat shows up that things are in motion.

The idea of the phantom passage of time and how the boat manages to take them back in time possibly in a loop fashion with the same events having to play out, or possibly with the idea of the characters morphing into these figures from the past is very interesting.

The high point for sure is the sound track and the use of sound with the idea of the sound existing in a liminal sense wherein it is not always synched up creating an uncanny quality that really adds to the atmosphere.

Overall, a wonderfully creative and imaginative horror film that does a lot to create chills that feel more existential than most films.

4.5/5

Pros.

The mystery

The sound design

The cinematography

The atmosphere

The scares

Cons.

Minor pacing issues

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Hokum: Americans Hated Abroad

A writer, a murder and a witch.

The lead in this film may well get a trophy for the most unpleasant protagonist of recent rememberance he is horrible to everyone around him, and is only nice to the young bartender as he wants her.

After she dies and the witch stuff starts to happen you don’t really believe that he cares about her enough to investigate her death or do any of that.

There is some great horror visuals within this section and it is nice to see it lean into Irish mythology however it doesn’t go far enough you get just a little bit and then it ends, it’s very disappointing in that regard.

Overall, an oddly stunted horror film that has some good ideas but doesn’t go far enough to make them meaningful.

2/5.

Pros.

A few good scares

The Irish mythology

Cons.

The lead is just awful

There is filler in it

The ending doesn’t feel like food closure

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Cinema Issues: Angel Studios Sells Out

Angel Studios knows who their audience is, when they first came about they were anti Hollywood, they stood for something, they were independent.

Now they are putting mentally ill men who think they’re women into their films, and taking potshots at capitalism, all to attract talent like Seth Rogen and one of the kids from Stranger Things.

The funny thing was the left would not touch any of their films due to the associations they keep, and now they have alienated the only audience they ever had. There is even some talk that the folks over there called the audience pigs.

The next time they want to make a film like Sound of Freedom they won’t find anyone willing to support them now.

The fact is they are adapting a book all about the evils of communism whilst then flipping that and saying well actually capitalism is worse.

This might be the biggest self inflicted mortal blow any studio has ever performed.

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The Wizard of the Kremlin: The Best Film You Haven’t Seen This Year

Summary: The rise to power of Vladimir Putin.

This film is gripping, it uses a fictional format to explore real events in Russian history to talk about the inner workings of power there. To some it may be a little slow but if you care about geopolitics there is more than enough to make the film worth the watch, there was even the thought of wanting it to slow down and do more, there were events and periods it didn’t really cover such as the wars in Georgia and Ukraine.

Additionally it would have been better to not have everyone speaking English and to have the film be in Russian for the most part. Dano’s character could still narrate the story in English but the character interactions wouldn’t be in it, it would make the film feel more authentic.

Overall, a brilliant film.

5/5

Pros.

It is interesting

It merges the fictional and the real very well

You want more of it

The performances

It doesn’t treat it’s characters as 2 dimensional.

Cons.

The English accents are jarring at first

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The Devil Wears Prada 2

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt are brought back to do a sequel to a film people liked 20 years ago about fashion.

So the writer of this piece went to a screening of the first film before seeing this in order to try and understand the complex plot of this sequel.

However, the first thing that becomes readily apparent is this film does not know what it is in 2026. It wants to sanitise the original and make it more PC but at the same time it loses a lot of what made the first film work. It produces a film that feels uncomfortable in its own skin.

There are aspects of this sanitisation that outrightly hurt the film such as Andy’s new assistant who some view as a racist stereotype of Asian people. This didn’t come across that way during our showing of the film, and Jin was actually was one of the more promising new characters.

There was also a lot of diversity in the models used and there were a number of large models in the film, this was a groan worthy modern dayism.

Overall, a confused and soulless sequel.

2/5

Pros.

Jin and Emily are standouts

It has a few funny moments

Cons

It is needlessly pc

It doesn’t need to exist

It wastes Anne Hathaway

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Exit 8: A Long Platform To Nowhere

A man walks up and down a subway platform looking for things out of place.

So if that sounds like an odd premise for a film to you, it’s because it’s actually a premise for a video game that got turned into a film.

Whilst the idea may work in theory in a game, as a film it is painfully dull and at times tedious. A few important, interesting things happen over the course of the film, but by and large it is just repetitive.

Moreover, the central character and spends a lot of the film gasping and wheezing and whilst this may be true to the game, it proves to be incredibly distracting over the course of the film.

Overall, an unnecessary video game adaptation.

1.5/5

Some interesting ideas

One good scare

Cons.

Its too slow

It is repetitive

The ending

The pacing

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