The Cynical Cinephiles

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Cast: Blake Lively Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water after the unnerving ocean tales such as Jaws , Open Water and Adrift, The Shallows will leave you skittish to let alone dip your toes in the water in fear of a toothy surprise. Medical student Nancy (Blake Lively) travels to a paradisiacal island in order to establish a reconnection with her deceased mother. Whilst the sand is lush and the ocean glimmering, something sinister lurks beneath and throws Nancy's idyllic getaway into a fight for survival. After being forced to take refuge on a rock to escape a bloodthirsty shark, Nancy must use all of her surrounding resources and her wits and strength to outsmart the finned foe. Director Jaume Collet-Serra (responsible for flicks such as Non-Stop ) continues to demonstrate his impressive prowess at directing actions and working wonders with a singular location, highlighting its vast, breathtaking beauty and the indifferent a...

Director: David Ayer Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Jai Courtney. After Warner Brothers' commercial and critical disappointment with superhero throw-down Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice , people began to doubt the studio's ability to deliver a strong entry in the already crowded superhero genre. Then low and behold, the advertisement campaign for Suicide Squad  gripped our attention and caught our eyes, promising a zesty and fresh tone in comparison to BVS's relentlessly bleak mood. Unfortunately, Warner Brothers fail to deliver on their promise and manage to deceive us with their misleading promotional material by producing an uneven and thoroughly underwhelming flick. Taking place after the dramatic events of Batman V Superman , the government entrust Amanda Waller, a ruthless official, to assemble a team of "meta-humans" she labels the "worst of the worst" that can be used to oppose ot...

Director: Paul Greengrass Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed. Bourne is most definitely back, ladies and gentlemen, and he's buffer and with more angst than ever before. After a nine year reprieve from the amnesiac assassin, director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon re-team and deliver a satisfying, action-packed thriller. Flying under the radar of the CIA and living the life of your average-Joe by bare knuckle fighting, Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled back into the web of deceit as Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) uncovers the depths of Treadstone, the shady organisation that created him. Finding himself once again on the run from the government, Bourne must contend with those trying to secure him whilst confronting the question marks of his own past. Does the synopsis sound familiar to you? Well that's because it's pretty much a carbon copy of The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy AND  The Bourne Ultimatum ,...