A young member of an elite group of assassins goes rogue to save the son of her neighbour in The Shadow Strays. Codename 13 (Aurora Ribero) is the member of an elite group of mercenary assassins known as “Shadows.” 13 gets sloppy when she feels empathy on a mission in Japan and is instructed by her…
A man becomes part of a behavioural research teaming observing and replicating the first crewed mission to Mars in Viking. David (Steve Laplante) is a man chosen by the Viking Society to take part in a simulation replicating the first human-crewed Mars mission currently in progress. David becomes the Earth-bound surrogate for crew member Thomas…
A simple “snatch and grab” job becomes complicated in Bullet Train. Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is a former assassin plagued by bad luck who is asked by his handler Maria Beetle (Sandra Bullock) to come back to work for a simple “snatch and grab” job of stealing a briefcase from a Japanese Bullet Train travelling from…
A loser of a man is mistaken for an infamous assassin in The Man from Toronto. Teddy Jackson (Kevin Hart) is an aspiring fitness instructor who decides to rent a cabin in Onancock, Virginia, to celebrate the birthday of his wife Lori (Jasmine Mathews). However, Teddy accidentally ends up at the wrong place and is…
The most dangerous villains around are brought together as part of a secret government strike force in Suicide Squad. With meta-humans becoming an increasing concern, government official Amanda Walker (Viola Davis) wants to put together a team of the worst of the worst, who will be tasked with performing seemingly impossible missions, under the supervision…
Tom Cruise and team return for a fifth mission, this time against a rogue “anti-IMF” agency. Ethan Hunt (Cruise) discovers proof of the existence of a criminal organization known as The Syndicate, lead by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris). However, since CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) successfully campaigned for the IMF to be disbanded, Hunt is left…
The team of mercenaries recruit new blood to face an old foe in The Expendables 3. After freeing imprisoned Expendables member Doc (Wesley Snipes), Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leads his team of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture), and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) to intercept an arms deal. Barney…
The man they call Machete (Danny Trejo) is back for a new mission. Recruited by the President (Carlos Estevez aka Charlie Sheen), Machete is asked to put a stop to a missile pointed towards Washington. Machete learns that the missile is part of a plan by crazed arms dealer Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), who wants…
Continuing more or less where the previous film let off, G.I. Joe: Retaliation finds the G.I. Joe team betrayed by U.S. government, which has been taken over by Cobra. The surviving Joes, including Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), Flint (D.J. Cotrona), and Snake Eyes (Ray Park), set off to stop the world domination…
Yesterday I went to a private screening of an ultra-low budget horror film entitled Beneath. The film was directed my friend and old York University classmate David Hollands, who had been working on the film since he shot it back in 2007 (while we were still students, he had a screening of earlier cut, then…
