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Review – Black Bag (2025)

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Dive into espionage with the wild Cinephellas boys and our review of Black Bag. Join Logan and Henry as they discuss Soderbergh’s sleek spy thriller, starring Cate Blanchett & Michael Fassbender. Is this marital mystery a must-see? Check out our video and don’t forget to stab that like and subscribe button for more great movie reviews. 👝

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“When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.”

Review – The Killer (2023)

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When a job goes wrong, an assassin seeks retribution against those in charge in David Fincher’s new Netflix film The Killer. Check out our review of the film that stars Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Charles Parnell.

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“After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”

Review – Dark Phoenix (2019)

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by Kevin Muller

In the year 2000, the first X-Men dropped and showed us that it was possible to create a comic book movie that felt real, while containing the themes of alienation and prejudice. All these modern day super-hero films, from The Dark Knight films to Marvel’s vast cinematic library, owes a great amount of gratitude to what director Bryan Singer brought to that film. This will be the last time we see these characters under the control of 20th Century Fox. Disney, which owns Marvel, merged with the company and now have control of the mutants, so it is only a matter of time until we see a reboot of the story and its characters. For their final go with the property, Fox have decided to adapt the ever popular Dark Phoenix saga again. They touched upon it in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, with mixed results. Does this film improve on it?

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Review- Alien: Covenant (2017)

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It’s been five years since Prometheus and in that time the film has received a very mixed reaction. There were a lot of unanswered questions that have been waiting for a sequel to go into more detail about where these prequels fit into the Alien mythos and Covenant might be the film that puts things back on track. Anyone looking for concrete answers to Prometheus will be disappointed, but as it’s own beast that adds more layers to the universe and it’s as close to the original film as we’ve gotten in nearly 40 years.

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Review – X-Men: Apocalypse

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by Kevin Muller

You have to hand it to the “X-men” franchise.  Not only is it still going strong, 16 years after the first film, but it was the jumping point for many of the comic book blockbusters we all admire today.   Christopher Nolan, who directed ‘The Dark Knight Trilogy”, has stated that he was influenced by the way Bryan Singer, this film’s director, and the director of the 2000 original film, grounded everything from the look to the themes into reality.  Singer followed it up with the equally worthy “X2” before departing and giving the reigns to Brett Ratner.   The general consensus of Ratner’s film was that it was garbage so when Singer was announced to come back and helm 2014’s “X-men: Days of Future Past,” fans rejoiced.   That film was a triumph both with fans and financially.   The amazing thing that Singer achieved was erasing everything that happened in Ratner’s film and his own, to create a new time line through the element of time travel.  This now gives him the ability to recast the roles that were made famous by other actors without anyone batting an eye.   

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Review: X-Men Apocalypse

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by Old King Clancy

The X-Men Franchise might be one of the most successful and influential comic-book series around but it’s also one of the most inconsistent with all nine of its entries ranging from great to mediocre to downright terrible. Following on from the awful Origins, the franchise seemed to find its feet again with First Class, followed by the even better Days Of Future Past, but like the original trilogy, the 3rd film is always the weakest and Apocalypse suffers from being an enjoyable yet overstuffed third album.

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