The 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 trailersJust as you...
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 ArticleWrath of Man review – Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham reunite in punchy thriller
While hinged on a threadbare plot as familiar as it is forgettable, this sinewy action B-movie delivers just about enough primal entertainmentThe making of Jason Statham, from wheeler-dealer to swimmer...
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