The Iron Mask (2020) - Movie Review

I feel like I need to put a massive ‘citation needed’ graphic on that poster because it is all kinds of misleading. They stunt-casted this movie twice over, as while Arnie and Jackie Chan are indeed in this, they are absent from roughly 85% of this two-hour feature (And on a minor note, Charles Dance is in even less of the film than them). Not that it stops just there, though; even the title isn’t accurate. Aside from being labelled in other markets as Journey To China, and the subtitle 'Mystery Of The Dragon Seal' shows up sporadically on different posters as well, it is also a sequel to the 2014 Russian film Viy, with its main character (played by English actor Jason Flemyng) returning here as the lead… kind of. If you thought all of this was confusing enough, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Military Wives (2020) - Movie Review

A bunch of middle-aged people get together to form a hobby group that gains enough notoriety to be featured in a TV show and/or documentary, which in turn gets turned into a dramatised film. This is one of those situations where I find myself reflecting on just how many times I’ve covered stories like this on here and how, with barely any exceptions, they usually just fall into the realms of ‘meh’ for me. Best case scenario, I end up being pleasantly surprised, albeit still not all that jazzed about it, and worse case, it turns into another Poms where I end up questioning what the filmmakers even think of their own audience. And with this one… honestly, I didn’t end up feeling either of those.