Action Juice

Despite being a spin-off rather than a sequel – as I would’ve preferred – to Guy Ritchie’s popular 2019 film The Gentlemen, Netflix’s series of the same name still intrigued... Read More

Reptile is one of those films that receives mixed-to-bad reviews, and yet, I have a hard time understanding why. For one, critics’ tendency to disproportionately trash Netflix movies seems to... Read More

In a manner that’s akin to last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, Extraction 2 allays my worry that Hollywood is losing the ability to produce old school action movie thrills. Sure,... Read More

For a multitude of reasons, I’ve become a connoisseur of French cinema, specifically action thrillers. If I had to pin down why, I’d say it’s because their movies tend to... Read More

After five seasons and 50+ years of soldiering, it certainly feels like it’s time to retire Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon) and his loyal troop, specifically Finan (Mark Rowley)... Read More

When Idris Elba last donned his character’s iconic tweed coat four years ago, I had already concluded that the series had pretty much run its course. Don’t get me wrong,... Read More

Other than Extraction, I can’t think of another English-language action movie from Netflix that I actually enjoyed, let alone that I felt deserved a sequel. Writer/director Joe Russo, half of... Read More

I vividly remember watching the first season of The Last Kingdom on BBC America all the way back in 2015 and thinking, yeah, this show is better than Vikings. It... Read More

With January’s Munich – The Edge of War being a cut above Netflix’s average fare, it seemed the streamer may have finally found a film genre that it excels at... Read More

Given the success of novelist Michael Connelly’s Bosch series on Amazon Prime Video, it should come as no surprise that Netflix, Prime’s primary competitor, would take a shot at adapting... Read More