Damon Smith

6 days ago | londonnet.co.uk | Damon Smith

The Surfer (15) Review: Men will be mental and boys will be bonkers. The heat-induced delirium is real in Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s sun-scorched psychological thriller, drenched in toxic, chest-beating machismo. The Surfer slowly winds up Nicolas Cage like a clockwork toy then unleashes the Oscar-winning actor on an Australian beach and neighbouring car park to deliver a trademark performance of steadily mounting madness.

6 days ago | londonnet.co.uk | Damon Smith

The Surfer (15) A nameless father returns to Australia to buy his childhood home, which has just come on the market. To celebrate, he takes his teenage son down to Luna Bay so they can surf together and get a clear view of the property from the water. “Don’t live here. Don’t surf here!” barks a thug named Pitbull, who threatens physical violence if they dare to head to the beach where Scally and his bullying acolytes have staked their claim to sand and sea.

2 weeks ago | londonnet.co.uk | Damon Smith

Thunderbolts* (12A) Review: It takes an army to conjure a thrilling, action-packed spectacle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Florence Pugh is the major general of this irreverent and surprisingly poignant instalment from a hit-and-miss phase five of the comic book-inspired saga.

3 weeks ago | londonnet.co.uk | Damon Smith

The Accountant 2 (15) Review: Fans of gunfights, action drama, tales of fraternity and neurodivergent superpowers will get a kick out of the Ben Affleck-fronted follow-up to 2016’s The Accountant. We catch up with Affleck’s Christian Wolff, a savant accountant who does the financial dirty work of some of the world’s most dangerous criminals, as he’s contacted by US treasury agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson, reprising the role from the first film).

3 weeks ago | londonnet.co.uk | Damon Smith

The Accountant 2 (15) The past returns to haunt young Treasury agent Marybeth Medina when someone close to her dies and their final words, etched on their arm, are: “Find the accountant”. Understanding the cryptic message, Marybeth tracks down mathematical genius Christian Wolff aka The Accountant and entreats him to help her crack the case.