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The first season of Hijack, the AppleTV thriller starring Idris Elba as a corporate negotiator stuck on a hijacked plane – where his family on the ground is also placed in danger to help ensure his compliance with the hijackers – wasn’t anything particularly special. Certainly not special enough to warrant a second season – […]
Disney has returned to the world of Zootopia (or Zootropolis in many parts of Europe), with Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde needing to work together to uncover another conspiracy. Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick (Jason Bateman) have been police partners for a week. When they cause a colossal amount of damage, Chief Bogo (Idris Elba) […]
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched from somewhere in the Pacific, aimed at the continental US. Believing it to be nuclear, both the military and the government scramble to deal with the situation. But with only 18 minutes until the missile reaches its target, those men and women have precious little time to do […]
An attack on Air Force One forces the UK Prime Minister (Idris Elba) and US President/Hollywood action hero (John Cena) to make their own way to a NATO summit in Italy. Along the way the two heads of state – who don’t get along – will have to battle hostile locals and an army of […]
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most iconic video game characters who has made a splash in other forms of media. His third theatrical film has been heavily marketed and it looks like it will be one of the biggest films of the holiday period. In 1974 a top-secret G.U.N. military facility suffered from […]
Hijack, the new thriller from AppleTV+, isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel with its story. After all, it gives away the main hook of the narrative in its title. But with a cast lead by Idris Elba, I was hoping that the series would turn out to be more than a run-of-the-mill hijacking story and […]
In the previous Britflix retrospective, I looked at one of my favourite British horror films, 28 Days Later. So, it seemed fair to look at the sequel that’s celebrating its 15th anniversary. 28 weeks after the rage virus outbreak the American military declare Britain is safe for repatriation and the Isle of Dogs is declared a […]
Three Thousand Years of Longing is George Miller’s big follow-up to his 2015 hit Mad Max Fury Road. This time he makes a modern fairy tale that’s a bold yet divisive film. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is a narratologist who goes to Istanbul for a conference. Whilst exploring the Grand Bazaar she buys a glass bottle. At […]
Sharks, whales, wolves, and bears served as the villains in the movies to show the rampart force of nature. Lions have also gotten this treatment with Beast. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) is a doctor and widower who takes his daughters to South Africa. They met Nate’s old friend and gamekeeper, Martin (Sharlto Copley) who takes the […]
The history of films based on video games is a torrid one. There have been many failures on a critical and financial level. 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was considered one of the better video game adaptations and it has earned a sequel. Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) has found a way to escape the Mushroom Planet and […]