Author Stephen O'Nion

“Ever wake up one day and realise nothing in your life was the way you thought it would be?” our hero is asked at one point. “No.” A femme fatale, a hotel room, a flashback, a missing kidney. Of...

Everly has a decent gimmick: one woman, one apartment, one daughter to save via a duffle bag full of cash. Its action compressed into that one location, there exists a recognisable awareness of the need for...

As if it wasn't jarring enough to see Sandler and Buscemi play understated with nary a slippery footed Kevin James in sight. Writer/director Thomas McCarthy has created an uneasy mess; shifting its tone from...

This is not a horror film. To say more would spoil the surprise(s). Instead, know that Stonehearst Asylum is frequently fantastic, utterly assured, and fully committed to pulling one genre switcheroo after...

Looking like a rather drab Meatloaf video (think candles and chambers) played on half-speed with a perma-frowned Clive Owen solemnly plodding about, Last Knights struggles to engage from the off. As its...

Heineken’s protagonists are just "a bunch of local jerkoffs" hit hard by the recession, unfairly losing their business and their purpose. So why not kidnap a billionaire? So crazy, so true?! Well, it...

Pop quiz, hotshot! What comes after “You chose this life”? A - “It chose me.” B - “Don’t talk to me about life.” C - “You can't hide from destiny.” Chose A? Congratulations!* Here’s $95...

Princess Kaguya is beautiful, and that presents a problem: our protagonist has her life planned, wrapped and presented to everyone else, her restless energy and passion gradually receding into the darker...

Con Air's director, The Princess Bride's writer, and Jason Statham's everything - Wild Card may have decent odds, but it's a long 40 minutes until the Stath even finds his fists. It all feels like a...

MacGruber: making life-saving inventions out of household materials. How many films feature a primary antagonist falling to their death? Die Hard, sure. The Return of the King, check. GoldenEye, there’s...

14 years after it was actually written, The Wedding Ringer finally makes it to screen. Was it worth it? Well, no, but… Had it been released all those years ago the story might be different; wouldn’t it...

You know what best symbolises an apocalypse? Fire. Ideally with a dash of brimstone. Spurting from the ground for no discernible reason, springing from pockets with an obscure source, burning continuously in...

Though all this recent romcom doom and gloom seems just a little harsh, Two Night Stand won’t do much to turn the tide. Unfortunately this cinematic bottle episode falls down on its frequently twee genre...

Entourage ended on the 11th of September 2011. The show concluded with the cast riding off into the sunset. Entourage being Entourage, the gang rode off in a plane. Two planes. Two private planes. And a...

Quoth Kenny Rogers: If you're gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right. Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) can’t play it right - can’t play anything right - and so skulks along like a sullen...