The Meg review – Jason Statham versus prehistoric megashark
Nonsense science and monster-movie cliches pile up in the latest marauding-shark thriller – but it’s lots of fun, tooLast week, the Academy invited its Twitter followers to boil down the plot of their...
View ArticleThe Meg review – Jason Statham is left all at sea
Statham oozes charisma while doing battle with a giant shark in this enjoyable romp let down by its cliche-infested scriptThere’s an argument to be made that all you really need for a halfway decent...
View ArticleThe Meg: it's got shark-punching, but it's also got a message about the...
Sure, Jason Statham gets to battle a man-eating monster – but his movie also packs warnings about ecological destructionWARNING: This article contains minor spoilersWhen the trailer for Jon...
View ArticleAvengers: Endgame to Toy Story 4: the biggest Super Bowl trailers
From the latest look at the potentially final Avengers film to the first teaser for the third season of The Handmaid’s Tale, Sunday’s game brought with it a buzz-worthy pack of new trailersContinue...
View ArticleHow did stunt men take over the film industry?
With action in high demand, David Leitch, director of Hobbs & Shaw, and Chad Stahelski are dominating cinemaTo state the obvious: one essential ingredient for a good action movie is … good action....
View ArticleEvery Jason Statham film - ranked!
We rate the action man’s bone-crunching output from Guy Ritchie’s cockney geezer to the Fast & Furious moviesFrom German shlockmeister Uwe Boll, this tepid fantasy yarn tasks Jason Statham’s sturdy...
View ArticleFast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw review – a fervently brainless delight
Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham do battle with Idris Elba’s cyborg as the mega-franchise spins off into ludicrous abandonThis latest iteration of the Fast and Furious franchise is unexpectedly fun,...
View ArticleFragile masculinity: why no one in the Fast and Furious films can lose a fight
Details have emerged of Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s contractual demands, which oblige their characters to throw equal numbers of punches. Where will the stalemate end?People may go and see Hobbs...
View ArticleJason Statham and The Rock 'refuse to lose fights against one another'
Fast & Furious stars’ contracts ensure they receive equal punishment on screen, says producerEgocentric demands are nothing new on Hollywood sets but producers of the Fast & Furious franchise...
View ArticleFast and Furious: Hobbs & Shaw review – silly spin-off
This fast-car franchise pits Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham against Idris ElbaThis spin-off of the Fast and the Furious franchise reunites rivals Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Luke Hobbs (introduced in...
View ArticleFastest & Furiousest: how Hobbs & Shaw expands the $5bn franchise
The action-packed spin-off shows how Hollywood’s most audacious franchise has more than enough gas leftIn the comedown off the adrenaline high resulting from The Fate of the Furious, the eighth and...
View ArticleMy favourite film aged 12: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
With four-letter words and violence by the bucketload, Guy Ritchie’s gangster flick had everything a 12-year-old boy could want – and it still doesRead all the other My favourite film choicesWhen I was...
View ArticleJason Statham’s new LG advert: just as nonsensical as his films
The legendary screen hardman uses his full range of acting in this bizarre phone adLG’s new G5 phone is a curious bit of kit: essentially a workaday-looking smartphone, but one that features a weird...
View ArticleMechanic: Resurrection review – Jason Statham undersold as cut-price Bond
This humdrum sequel fails to match the precision of its predecessor, while denying Jason Statham the comic wings of his revelatory turn in last year’s Spy2011’s The Mechanic, a carefully calibrated...
View ArticleFast & Furious 8 trailer review: a reassuring, obscene platter of murder
Death! Statham! Market stall hair! The Fate of the Furious is an explosive return to the Fast franchise’s hoariest old tropesThe Fast & Furious series will soon be eight films long, which means...
View ArticleThe Fate of the Furious review - Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson ensure...
The latest instalment of the car-based action thriller – also called Fast & Furious 8 – has lost none of its zip, and even gained Charlize Theron, Jason Statham and Helen MirrenThe resurgence of...
View ArticleFast & Furious 8 review – fuelled by silliness
From the opening fireballs, the muscle-car franchise has got even more ludicrous – this time with added Helen MirrenYou can judge the quality of each successive instalment of the petrolhead Fast &...
View ArticleFast and Furious spin-off revs up with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham
Charlize Theron due to return as cyberterrorist Cipher in the offshoot, as producer hints the ‘official’ street racer action series will be capped at 10 movies The continuing success of the Fast and...
View ArticleGiant sharks and giant budgets: how the B-movie brought its A game
After Guillermo del Toro turned a creature feature into a best picture Oscar winner, films with B-movie plots, from Rampage to A Quiet Place, are also edging their way to the topThe B-movie, in the...
View ArticleThe Meg review – Jason Statham versus prehistoric megashark
Nonsense science and monster-movie cliches pile up in the latest marauding-shark thriller – but it’s lots of fun, tooLast week, the Academy invited its Twitter followers to boil down the plot of their...
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