Tim Robey

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From the World of John Wick: Ballerina: An action spin-off as nasty as it is shoddy

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Robey

Ana de Armas as Eve in Ballerina - Larry D Horricks/LionsgateThe offer made so far by the John Wick franchise was solid enough: we got four films’ worth of Keanu Reeves weaving through a society of assassins with deadly flair. Ballerina, billed as “From the World of John Wick”, is a spin-off that spins out – an exercise in flailing tedium that shows all the signs of a total creative power cut. Reeves is a long way from being in charge, or to blame.
An action spin-off as nasty as it is shoddy

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

Salvage jobs on blockbusters do sometimes pan out. Then there's the likes of this, which has easily the lousiest photography, stunt work, acting, dialogue, you name it, of the Wick series to date. It's rather like setting expectations with "From the World of James Bond" and then inflicting Vin Diesel's xXx upon us. The trouble is how little we care about Eve.
Bono: Stories of Surrender – A dire 86 minutes of yelping self-mythologising

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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a lovely, offbeat and very British comedy

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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Karate Kid: Legends – Jackie Chan’s sequel is sherbet-dusted with summery nostalgia

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are weighed down by their script

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are weighed down by their script

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Robey

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a lovely, offbeat and very British comedy

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

Taciturn folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) prefers "intimate" gigs, and is certainly promised that in the lovely, offbeat, acutely British comedy-drama The Ballad of Wallis Island. Indeed, for £500,000 in cash, he may wind up playing to an audience of one. This deranged megafan is Charles (Tim Key), a hearty chatterbox and two-time Lottery winner who has lured Herb to the fictional island of the title, somewhere off the Welsh coast.
Jackie Chan's sequel is sherbet-dusted with summery nostalgia

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

Hardcore fans of the Karate Kid franchise (which was born in 1984) have lately been treated to six whole seasons of the spin-off Cobra Kai on Netflix. In all honesty, that contingent may be in too deep for Karate Kid: Legends. This breezy sequel, the sixth film in the series, is sherbet-dusted with summery nostalgia, but also cracks on, running nearly an hour shorter than the 2010 reboot starring Jaden Smith, which introduced a more-than-welcome Jackie Chan as the new sensei, Mr Han.
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are weighed down by their script

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Robey

For most travellers, walking the 630-mile coastal path from Minehead to Poole - tracing the whole finger of the Southwest Peninsula - might be cause for a two-month hiking sabbatical. For the married couple in The Salt Path, based on a 2018 memoir by one of them, Raynor Winn, it became the solution instead to a more immediate problem: they'd lost their home. After an unwise investment in a friend's failing company, they forfeited a court case and found their farm repossessed.