Category Archives: Film

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Review

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Dean DeBlois, DreamWorks, Fantasy, Gerard Butler, How to Train Your Dragon, Mason Thames, Nick Frost, Nico Parker | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Black Bag (2025)

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Sam S-P

God bless 90 minute popcorn movies. After years of not talking shop at home, a married spy couple get drawn into the search for a mole in their service and George (Michael Fassbender) comes up with a list of suspects … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Black Bag, Cate Blanchett, David Koepp, Michael Fassbender, Spy Movie, Steven Soderbergh, Thriller, Tom Burke | Leave a comment

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) Review

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Action, Blockbuster, Christopher McQuarrie, Hayley Atwell, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Simon Pegg, Thriller, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames | Leave a comment

Thunderbolts* (2025) Review

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Florence Pugh, Jake Schreier, Lewis Pullman, Marvel, MCU, Sebastian Stan, Superhero Movie, Thunderbolts, Wyatt Russell | Leave a comment

Havoc (2025) Review

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Action, Gareth Evans, Havoc, Jessie Mei Li, Netflix, The Raid, Thriller, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Hardy | Leave a comment

Sinners (2025) Review

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Hailee Steinfeld, Historical Drama, Horror, Michael B Jordan, Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Thriller | Leave a comment

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 90th Anniversary Review

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Black Comedy, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Horror, James Whale, Universal Monsters | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Heretic (2024)

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Sam S-P

What a tense, twisted treat HERETIC is. Mormon missionaries Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Paxton (Chloe East) are invited into the home of the affable Mr Reed (Hugh Grant) for a friendly theological discussion and get much more than they bargained … Continue reading →