Hardly an essential film in the Van Damme canon, but Legionnaire is a weird little detour made at the tail end of his career as a major leading man in the late 90s and this oddly big-budget war epic sees the star doing something radically different to his other action flicks. It's clear that a substantial amount of money has been poured into this movie with its period setting and large-scale action sequences so to see it be released direct-to-video…
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From Russia with Love 1963
With twice the budget of Dr. No, From Russia with Love feels like a properly big James Bond adventure that is still, 60 years later, one of the best of the franchise. Sure, Dr. No already felt like a fully-formed Bond movie but it's here that I think the series really finds its footing as this sequel is such a good slice of entertainment which brings in so many iconic elements (Q, all the gadgets, the MacGuffin plot) for the…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
While it's perhaps not the best movie to be watched at Christmas time given how depressing and heartbreaking it is, The Banshees of Inisherin is also one of the very best films of the year which also features some of the year's finest performances as well. This really is the feel-bad masterpiece of 2022 since it's a tragic black comedy that takes a relatively simple premise and really stretches it out into a thoughtful and darkly humourous look at loneliness…
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The Menu 2022
I don't know if it's quite as clever a film as it wants to be but taken simply as a satirical horror black comedy, The Menu does not disappoint as it's a delightfully twisted little movie. Execution-wise, this film is really fun and energetic, stemming from the way it slowly reveals each element of its plot and the multitude of surprises that spring up along the way, all of which are well-paced and do a great job of keeping the…
