Fall 2: A Step Over A Ledge

Summary: one of the girls from the first film’s sister decides she wants to do some climbing.

There was a low budget, Angel Studios feel to this film from it’s lack of effects to its focus on evil drug smugglers, it felt gritty and cheap and not in a good way.

Rather than being back Grace Caroline Curry we have to meet a new host of characters which are nowhere near as likeable, with one the sister of the girl from the first film strongly hating Curry’s character for no real reason at all.

They are trying to set up some sort of Fall shared universe due to the film doing well on Netflix but no one wants this except maybe the crew themselves.

The first one worked the second one is already starting to feel gimmicky.

Overall, a sub part sequel

2/5

Pros.

Some good tense moments

It is well paced

Cons.

It looks cheap

The whole drug smuggling side plot

The tiresome cameo to turn it into an Avengers for mountaineers

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Mutiny: An Alien World

Summary: Jason Statham is fighting human trafficking in a hard to define location, that doesn’t seem to operate like anywhere else on Earth.

This is a deeply forgettable action film that makes you think why bother, it follows on from other Statham films like A Working Man wherein Statham is working for and deeply loyal to an employer and then something negative happens to them and he has to sort it out.

What should have been a film about corporate espionage and Statham going after this rival syndicate that had this employer killed instead turned into him getting stuck on a boat and killing people on that instead.

Unlike his other recent ventures like the Beekeeper there is not even that much of a novelty gimmick to it, he could have killed people using nautical equipment and made sea puns as one liners. Sadly we get a lot of gun and knife kills so very generic.

For a cheap leading lady they draft back in Anabelle Wallis who hear manages to do and inconsistent American accent. Why she is in this film is an open question as she doesn’t really serve that much of a purpose, she doesn’t end up with Statham at the end and she doesn’t do all that much action wise.

Overall, not worth the price of admission

2/5

Pros.

A few good kills

The action choreography

Cons.

It’s generic

At times it’s boring

Wallis

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The End Of Oak Street: We Got This Instead Of It Follows 2?

Summary: A street gets transported back in time.

This is the sort of film that Steven Speilberg would have made about ten years ago, when he was in his rough patch, which arguably he never got out of.

There is a lot of modernity here, the mother, Anne Hathaway wishes to leave her family and has to overcome that. She also showcases female rage by screaming at her son, not her daughter immediately after the death of his father. The death of the father, Ewan McGregor feels odd it doesn’t make a lot of narrative sense after he knocks out the dinosaur with a sledgehammer seemingly he turns his back and is then killed. However it would have made more sense with how the sense is framed if he was about to be saved in some way. Hathaway’s character later saves him in the future.

The tone is also off, this is clearly presented as a thriller yet there are forced in moments of levity, for example before his death McGregor and Hathway observe some dinosaur sex.

There are some good thrills and the film itself is serviceable if you just want to see a mindless blockbuster with dinosaurs. Even with the modernity it isn’t bad, it is just a genetic film with a number of eye role moments.

Overall, deeply mediocre.

2.5/5

Pros.

A few good thrills

It is serviceable

There are dinosaurs and they look okay

Cons.

The tone

Hathaway’s character

The ending is contrived

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Is God Is: Everything Wrong With Modern Hollywood

Summary: twins go in search of their father who disfigured their mother.

Where to start with this, so firstly this may be the most anti nuclear family film ever made. Whilst fathers can be abusive, as is the case here, this film seems to just hate fathers and men full stop.

Then you have the fact that if this was made by a non black person you would call it extremely racist. Nearly every racist cliche under the sun is thrown in here, the father is abusive, and he abandons his second family.

On that you have the fact that they call their mother God as she gave birth to them, with the implication being God is a woman and all women could be God which is sure to upset any religious folks out there. The male half brother also calls the abusive father God as well, which is also fairly blasphemous. The film feels like it is making a deeper point calling these characters God but it comes off as incredibly paper thin.

The twins themselves have been through a horrific life, but they aren’t likeable protagonist they threaten people who haven’t done anything to them such as the father’s lawyer. Yes he didn’t tell them immediately what they wanted to know but that doesn’t mean they had to threaten him. They also attack the father’s current partner who is a beaten woman, so that’s not a great look.

This has been called a “black film” by the people who made it however this label is harmful and reductive as film should be for all and not segregated. This label could be being used by the production crew to deflect any criticism from the film.

Overall, whoever is in charge of developing content for Amazon studios needs sacking immediately.

0/5

Pros.

None.

Cons.

It is not as intellectually deep as it thinks it is

It pushes racist stereotypes about black men

The characters are villains and their trauma doesn’t make their actions against characters other than the father justifiable

It hates men and the nuclear family

It is awfully paced and pretty oppressive to watch

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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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How To Make A Killing: The Most Generic Film Of 2026

Summary, a man decides to kill off his relatives to inherit some money.

Incredibly generic would be the best way to describe this, this fable of where chasing wealth gets you is one you have seen about 1000 times before and many times done better than here.

Almost every single character in this film is intensely dislikeable, if you’re supposed to root for Powell’s everyman that would be news to us. In many senses it reflects the worst parts of American culture where everyone is just obsessed with money, whether they have it or not it’s seemingly all anyone can ever think about.

It is the sort of film that shouldn’t have made it pass the idea stage, let alone taking up space that could instead be given to other films.

Overall, Margaret Qually deserves better than this.

1/5

Pros.

It’s short.

Cons

You have seen this before

It is dull

It is stale

The ending makes the whole thing pointless

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The Secret Agent: The Most Interesting Academic Ever

Summary, after becoming on a corrupt government minister’s hit list. A university professor must go into hiding.

The biggest compliment for this film is the tone, it could have been a lot bleaker than it was. Whilst it wasn’t happy go lucky, it did manage to balance the grit with a more optimistic tone of displaced people creating a community.

The tension across the course of the film about whether the lead will be caught or not, creates wonderful stakes that carry through the film, making you invested in the ending. Sadly they decide to just have him die off screen which is anti-climatic.

There is also some more absurd stuff that comes out of nowhere and contrasts with the broader tone of the film. This should have been removed from the film, the metaphorical intent is clear but is just feels far too out of the blue.

Overall, an incredibly strong and likable film.

4/5

Pros.

The pace

The tone bar one absurdist scene

The performances

The ending, bar the death.

Cons.T

The absurdist sequence

The death happening off screen

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Primate: So It Has Come To This

Summary: A monkey goes bad after being bitten by a rabid animal.

Truly we are at the bottom of the barrel, rather than come up with fresh concepts we are recycling the same old idea of animal attack films. How many times do we need to see bad dogs, bad monkeys, bad sharks. It’s all the same.

This film is exactly what you would expect it to be, bad teen cast, that cannot act, being hunted down by a monkey. Again does it follow logic or make sense, nope, do the human characters behave like people with brains? Of course not.

The scares aren’t there as if anything the film is frustrating, you could easily escape the situation in a number of ways but it just keeps carrying on, seeing the Monkey act out is not scary it feels like people deliberately keeping themselves in harms way.

I cannot for the life of me understand why this is held in high regard on rotten tomatoes as it is just another generic horror film.

Overall, give it a miss.

1.5/5

Pros.

It is short

It is unintentionally funny

Cons.

It is generic

It is badly acted

It is irritating

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The House Maid: The Most Shocking Thing Is Seeing Sydney Sweeney Eat A Fat Sandwhich

Summary

Amanda Seyfried won’t apologize for calling Charlie Kirk hateful even after he died, nor will she apologise for starring in this slop.

Female slop is the easiest way to categorise this film, it is like one of those cheap romance/crime novels you can pick up from any supermarket made for the mass market, and mainly used for Instagram stories to show people what you are reading. The twists and turns are incredibly predictable, if you have ever watched a thriller, drama, or have the imagination of anyone over the age of 6 I am sure you can see where it is going from the start of the film. It feels like a big budget CW made for TV film, except it doesn’t star teens, it stars older actors who should know better.

The film itself is long and bloated, and feels like a film that is so afraid of actually going there and giving you something new that it just reheats greasy left overs it knows will make you smile at first but be sick later. When the film tries to shock you it just reminds you how dumb it assumes you as an audience member are.

Neither Sweeny nor Seyfried can do much to liven the film up and don’t even seem interested in trying.

Overall, yet more slop from Hollywood.

1/5

Pros

It is unintentionally funny

Cons.

It is predictable

It is boring

It is safe

Neither of the actresses want to be there.

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The Surfer: Eat The Rat

Summary

A man, Nicolas Cage, wants to buy a house.

So this was a trippy film that made you lose the plot somewhere along the way on purpose. There are times in this film where even if you have been avidly paying attention the whole time you will be a bit lost, and not really understand what is going on and that is the fun of it.

If you enjoy Cage’s broader strangeness and want to get lost in a liminal space that resembles an Australian beach than you will likely enjoy this. However, if you find Cage’s shtick grating then you will not enjoy this film, really it is that simple.

In terms of Cage strangeness this is probably more of a subtle performance for him, there is less screaming and shouting, and he actually plays a man losing his mind in a more toned down way.

4/5

Eat the rat

The weirdness

Cage

There is fun to be had

Cons.

It is badly paced

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