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A fantastic Disney movie that grafts violence, aliens and weapons onto a story about family values. Non-stop one-liners. We get Hawaiian surfing and hula hula dancers, but it’s more about being and outsider and weird. Entertaining for kids and adults alike. And it was clearly made by Elvis fans.

I was annoyed by the divergence from Millar’s comic book in key aspects of the story and the distortion of the ideological ideas presented and basically of the main point. But as an animated film, Red Son is a very clever twist on the Superman myth, with great action and a really dark atmosphere. The best part is his scuffle with Batmankov.

A feeble follow-up to the first season. The overcomplicated story and an even less charismatic package in which it's wrapped are spoiled by the obvious economizing on the production design. the pasteboard scenery and cheap special effects in Harlan’s world are just laughable compared to Blade Runner’s Earth. There’s less nudity and unfortunately less Dichen Lachman too. The action is chaotic and hard to follow. The only convincing and intelligible character is Poe. It’s watchable, but rather a missed opportunity.

A sibling of Crank in which Statham is replaced with Harry Potter in a bathrobe with pistols nailed to his hands. The screenplay seems like it was written by a high-school kid who had just discovered Cypress Hill, but it’s filmed with eagerness and unbelievable ferocity. Its allure lies mainly in the visuals and the fact that it's action packed. It takes it a while to really get going, but it’s entertaining and enjoyable overall. It’s probably meant to be a sort of wake-up call to millennials to throw down their cell phones, grab their guns and go kill people.

Visually perfect. Deakins outdid himself again. Director/screenwriter/producer Mendes, who put together tales told by his grandfather and built a story around them, put his heart into 1917. The technical precision and illusion of one continuous shot make the whole movie an unbelievably intense experience that showed me that the topic of war still has something to say to the modern audience. But the movie does not fail to present a deeply human story, the most moving scene of which was the reciting of nursery rhymes to babies in a dark cellar somewhere in France. Newman’s music is strong and sometimes chilling.

The best Czech movie in years. This is an excellent film about revenge, spiced up with the fact that the killers are about eighty years old. Problems with orientation, memory and being wheelchair-bound are just some of the obstacles that these war veterans overcome with their own stubborn persistence. The acting performances are brilliant; you just can’t help rooting for both protagonists. Cynical jokes contrast with all of the horrors of old-age and the journey through the picturesque countryside is topped off with laughter at nothing in the retirement home. What the heck has happened with the world? Hats off to Dušek and Provazník, who didn’t slip into comedy, instead reflecting the gravity of the situation. P.S: Schmitzer is basically like The Punisher in a wheelchair.

The Black Panther’s father was beaten to death and so, now in the role of an NYPD detective, he likes to clean the streets somewhat more thoroughly than his colleagues, preferring to terminate them rather than taking them into custody. He's the perfect candidate to lead a manhunt for two eight-time cop killers who disappeared with 50 kilos of uncut cocaine. This action classic (coherent shoot-outs, high-speed chases) changes direction a little halfway through and is much more intelligent than it seemed at the start. And it just keeps on moving. The moralistic conclusion paradoxically does not present the main character as a good person, but more of a perfectly functioning machine for imposing a new order on the modern world.

I hoped at least for a bit of entertaining action with some cute girls, but that’s not what I got. The car chase shot almost exclusively from inside the vehicle is frustrating. The bad guys escaping thanks to the incompetence of the central team is maddening. Then when the boss says “good work", praising the team… it’s just devastating. Banks directs like a janitor, trampling the legacy of the preceding versions. I didn’t expect anything great, but I’m surprised by how illogically all of the characters behave. Sure, the women help each other out and they’re best friends, which is understandable since all of the men in the movie are either idiots or bad guys. Oh, and one guy cooks for them and gives them massages. At least Stewart appears in a short skirt.

Top-notch special effects, but a couple of old bridges and one dam certainly didn’t swallow the entire crazy budget. More likely Baba Voss rightly demanded a huge fee. Momoa and his decapitation antics are the series' most entertaining attraction. Someone should make a new Conan the Barbarian as a miniseries! A story of two kids born with sight who go to jail to visit their dad has a subtext that is both natural and racist. An evil black man destroying nature again = Canada burning coal. Baba sums it up nicely in the library. But I think that See would work much better as a book. Knight needs room to illustrate the thinking and motives of some of the characters properly, to understand just why they behave like cretins. Take Queen Kane and her dumb plan! How could she even hope that her plan could ever work? There must be some easily defendable reason hidden inside that sick mind of hers, but I would like to know it and not just make assumptions. To accept the fact that the blind are somehow weirdly blind is a game I’m willing to play. Some are a little like Daredevil and then again some aren’t… ok, I can dig that. I’m still looking forward to season 2, even though it has a long way to go in terms of screenwriting.

Bastille Day is likable action movie with the hard-fisted Idris in the role of a CIA badass who solves every situation by disobeying orders, bending the rules and shooting people. Almost like one of Besson’s very best screenplays fell from his desk. A lot of borrowing goes on in all directions, but director James Watkins, who had a hit with his Eden Lake, always channels the action into the right genre alley. And the lesson learned? Maybe this will persuade American muggers not to rob European tourists.