MAAC Review: Bodies At Rest
Discounting the derided Cutthroat Island (1995), Renny Harlin directed some of the better Hollywood blockbusters of the 90’s. The likes of Cliffhanger (1993), The...
MAAC Review: HELLBOY
It has been over ten years since the release of the last Hellboy film. Although not as financially successful as its more famous comic...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI
Tak Sakaguchi (or just Tak as he is now credited) is back once again to unleash all kinds of punishment on many unwitting opponents...
MAAC Review: Ip Man – The Awakening
Another month and another Ip Man film is upon us. Directors Li Xi Jie and Zhang Zhu Lin’s Ip Man: The Awakening (2021) finds...
MAAC Review: SPIDER-MAN – FAR FROM HOME
Coming hot on the heels of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home smartly does not try and emulate the large scale spectacle of...
MAAC Review: STUBER
The buddy cop genre has featured some of Hollywood’s finest action movies, especially rising in popularity during the golden period of the 1980's. Titles...
MAAC Review: GODZILLA – KING OF THE MONSTERS
After the debacle that was Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998), it took Hollywood over fifteen years before they would take another stab at the Big...
MAAC Review: ASTRO
Alexander, a billionaire who has developed his private space program, returns from a parallel universe through a black hole with an pointy-eared emo-alien. He...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: A WITNESS OUT OF THE BLUE
Released in China last year, A Witness Out of the Blue is finally being released to Western audiences, forming part of Fantasia 2020's lineup.
While...
MAAC Review: NO TIME TO DIE
Daniel Craig’s James Bond returns for Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die, which brings the Craig era to an end. Unlike previous Bond’s,...
MAAC Review: DA 5 BLOODS
It is ironic that Spike Lee’s latest, Da 5 Bloods was produced for Netflix, as it is no doubt one of his most cinematic...
MAAC Review: BLACK PANTHER
Eighteen movies into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s easy to think (and sometimes proven) that their formula can grow stale. This is especially evident...
MAAC Review: SHAFT
Created by novelist Ernest Tidyman, John Shaft was first introduced to cinema audiences with Gordon Park's Shaft (1971). Portrayed by Richard Roundtree, its success...
MAAC Review: POUND OF FLESH
Having worked with martial arts star JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME on two previous films (Assassination Games, 6 Bullets), director ERNIE BARBARASH is back for...
MAAC Review: Day Shift
After working as a stuntman, stunt coordinator and sometime actor for the last 32 years, J.J. Perry has finally made his directorial debut with...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: THE PAPER TIGERS
The martial arts films shown at Fantasia 2020 have featured lone Samurai’s taking on 500 men, MMA musicals and Donnie Yen battling police corruption....
MAAC Review: VANGUARD
Originally scheduled for release at the start of the year before being delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Stanley Tong’s Vanguard has finally secured...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: SPL – SHA PO LANG (2005)
While there are only a handful of martial arts movies showing at the festival this year, the good people at Fantasia 2020 have made...
MAAC Review: Polar
Polar generates no heat in the action department. Trying so hard to be cool and bafflingly out of touch, settles for one of those...
MAAC Review: SHAZAM!
After a few rocky years that saw the releases of Batman VS Superman (2016) and Suicide Squad (2016), the DCU finally seems to be...