MAAC Review: THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL
Director Lee Won-tae returns to cinema screens with sophomore effort, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, a lean and mean action thriller that further...
MAAC Review: THE WHITE STORM 2 – DRUG LORDS
Released in 2013, Benny Chan’s The White Storm was an homage to the heroic bloodshed movies that became popular in the 80’s and 90’s,...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: FOR THE SAKE OF VICIOUS
Having made its premier at Fantasia 2020, home invasion thriller For the Sake of Vicious is perfect viewing for the midnight movie crowd. Told...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: A WITNESS OUT OF THE BLUE
Released in China last year, A Witness Out of the Blue is finally being released to Western audiences, forming part of Fantasia 2020's lineup.
While...
MAAC Review: BROTHERS BY BLOOD
Originally titled The Sound of Philadelphia, Brothers by Blood marks the English language debut of writer/director Jérémie Guez. Based on Peter Dexter’s novel Brotherly...
MAAC Review: THE INVINCIBLE DRAGON
Fruit Chan’s long delayed The Invincible Dragon finally makes its ways to cinema screens, released on the coattails of Chan’s recent Three Husband’s (2019)...
MAAC Review: SPIDER-MAN – FAR FROM HOME
Coming hot on the heels of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home smartly does not try and emulate the large scale spectacle of...
MAAC Review: THE OLD GUARD
You have to hand it to Netflix, during this lockdown they have truly become a saving grace for action movie lovers, with a variety...
MAAC Review: JOHN WICK
JOHN WICK is the directorial debut of two veteran stuntmen DAVID LEITCH and CHAD STAHELSKI, who worked on everything from 'The Expendables' films to...
MAAC Review: ASTRO
Alexander, a billionaire who has developed his private space program, returns from a parallel universe through a black hole with an pointy-eared emo-alien. He...
MAAC Review: SPL 2 – A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES
A sequel in name (and theme) only to 2005's martial arts crime thriller 'Sha Po Lang' directed by Wilson Yip, SPL 2: A TIME...
MAAC Review: TENET
With lockdown restrictions beginning to loosen, Christopher Nolan has given some us a reason to return to the cinema. His latest spectacular action thriller...
MAAC Review: BLOODSHOT
Vin Diesel leaves 'Dominic Torreto' behind for a while, returning to cinema screens with the comic book adaptation Bloodshot. Based on the Valiant comic...
MAAC Review: CHASING THE DRAGON
Co-directed by WONG JING and veteran cinematographer JASON KWAN (which explains how bloody gorgeous the film is), CHASING THE DRAGON is a remake of...
MAAC Review: LINE WALKER 2 – INVISIBLE SPY
Jazz Boon returns to the director’s chair to helm the blistering Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy, an in name only sequel to the popular...
MAAC Review: REDEMPTION DAY
Soon to be released by Saban Films, Redemption Day marks the feature length directorial debut of Hicham Hajji. The main plot focuses on army veteran...
MAAC Review: Star Wars – THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
So it has come to this. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker not only marks the end of the trilogy started four years ago...
MAAC Review: CHASING THE DRAGON 2 – WILD WILD BUNCH
With a filmography filled with lowbrow comedies, rape revenge thrillers and B level action movies, Wong Jing is not the first name that normally...
MAAC Review: THE WANDERING EARTH
After saving Africa from terrorists in Wolf Warrior 2 (2017), Wu Jing ups the stakes in The Wandering Earth with the whole world now in...
MAAC Review: We Die Young
After his stellar work in The Bouncer (2018), Jean-Claude Van Damme returns with We Die Young (2019), another small scale feature that focuses more on...
