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  • Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
    Review preview for Alita: Battle Angel

    With its CGI clever-dickery the kick boxing is controlled and packed. T

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A woman with no memories tries to uncover the secrets of her past.
  • The Faculty (1998)
    Review preview for The Faculty

    The film succeeds so well in a genre, where pastiche is the norm, by accepting absurdity as real.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Six students take on their teachers after they begin to suspect they are aliens.
  • Hypnotic (2023)
    Review preview for Hypnotic

    Amounts to a criminal thriller with extra magic

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government programme.
  • Machete (2010)
    Review preview for Machete

    The pacing never lets up and the action continually tries to outdo itself with its inventiveness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Armed only with his machete, a pissed-off Mexican sets out to avenge a set-up and the murder of his family, and to bring justice to a US border town.
  • Machete Kills (2013)
    Review preview for Machete Kills

    Machete Kills is a jumbled assortment of loosely related scenes whose main theme appears to be “how many different ways can you kill people with a helicopter?”

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    Machete is recruited by the US government to travel through Mexico and take down a drug dealer who plans to launch a deadly space weapon.
  • Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time In Mexico

    Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Robert Rodrigues continues the saga of El Mariachi with even more bloodshed.
  • Planet Terror (2007)
    Review preview for Planet Terror

    Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    Survivors take on infected zombies in the second part of the double-bill formerly known as Grindhouse.
  • Shorts (2009)
    Review preview for Shorts

    What would be a relatively slight tale is made much more intriguing by the presentation.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A collection of stories about the adventures that ensue after a young boy discovers a magical wishing rock.
  • Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014)
    Review preview for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    You don't venture into this steaming snake pit without balls of steel

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The Senator's power may be challenged and the femme fatale's allure may be slipping but Old Town remains a dangerous place in the neon nightscape of the graphic novel
  • Spy Kids 2 (2002)
    Review preview for Spy Kids 2

    The film is a lot of fun if you don't stop and think.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The spy kids travel to an island full of deformed wild animals to recover an invisibility device.
  • Sin City (2005)
    Review preview for Sin City

    I know it will mostly appeal to comic book fans like myself, but people should give it a chance, if only to experience its style.

    The Remote Viewer · 5 out of 5
    Stylised graphic novel adaptation shows three men on a mission.
  • Spy Kids (2001)
    Review preview for Spy Kids

    At last, a children's film that is fun!

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The children of retired spies carry on the work in secret to save the world.

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