Elevation (2024) stars Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin and is a post-apocalyptic adventure set in the Rocky Mountains. A single father and two women venture out to face monstrous creatures in order to save the life of a young boy.
Nothing really new but some good performances make it emminently watchable, so do give it a go.
Blink Twice (2024), directed by Zoë Kravitz, stars Channing Tatum, Naomi Ackie and Christian Slater and is classed as a mystery/thriller/horror. A good cast and some good reviews, so was quite looking forward to watching..
However, don’t know if it was mood or something else but I actually gave up, totally unimpressed, after 31 minutes and had already considered abandoning ship a bit earlier.
Maybe I will have to give it another go sometime.
Civil War (2024) is a film by Alex Garland and stars Kirsten Dunst as a war reporter who, with a small group of fellow journalists, is trying to get to Washington DC before rebels reach the White House.
No zombies, mutants or aliens in this dystopian tale, which is nice for a change, just something a bit different and from a different perspective. Interesting, quite absorbing on several levels and well worth watching in my humble view. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I have watched Deadpool 1 and 2 several times each, enjoying them every time, but have had Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) on the back burner for a while now. No longer.
Hugely popular (94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes), it is lavish, irreverent, filled with cameos and bad jokes and is generally a fun ride. As good as the first two movies? Not sure yet, but nevertheless very good and entertaining.
Black Doves (2024), starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, is a spy thriller series (season 1 is 6 episodes) with intricate plots, a bit of action, deceit and betrayal and a suitable body count through the alarmingly matter-of-fact slaughter of any fellow humans who get in the way. Or don’t.
Eminently watchable, but also maybe equally as quickly forgotten.
After a voluntary 10-year hiatus/semi-retirement/long holiday, Cameron Diaz is back on our screens in Back in Action (2025) alongside Jamie Foxx and Glenn Close. Although pretty much a routine spy thriller with a substantial dash of comedy, it is nevertheless a fun movie which has proven more popular with audiences than critics. Sit back, grab a snack and have a good chuckle.
American Primeval (2025) is a 6-part western miniseries set in Utah in 1857 and features numerous historical characters – Jim Bridger, Brigham Young etc – and is obviously at least loosely based on real events. Violent, gritty, brutal and quite dark in parts, I really did enjoy it. Good westerns are few and far between these days. Enjoy.
Ad Vitam (2025), a French action thriller, looked as though it would be just another ‘former elite unit member’ goes on the hunt for revenge and with suitable bodycount. It wasn’t. After an opening bit of action, it was basically an hour of unnecessary, mainly irrelevant and uninteresting backstory which left one wondering if it would ever actually get going at some point. Not the best action film but not entirely a waste of time.
Operation Seawolf (2022) stars Dolph Lundgren and is a real low-budget affair with maritime battle scenes looking like they were filmed from the side of a bathtub with a faulty Gopro using models built in nursery school. The upside? It is only 1 hour 26 mins in length.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the latest in the series, is entertaining enough, with plenty of action and humour and well worth a watch.
Carry-On (2024), the plane luggage that is, is the subject of this action thriller. A reasonable plot, high body-count…what more could you ask on a winter’s eve? Not quite Die Hard, but entertaining enough.
