From Keanu Reeves' magnificent return to action movies with John Wick to Ethan Hawke's new `virtual' war drama Good Kill, here's TEN's round-up of new and recent cinemas releases. Don't butter your popcorn without reading it
John Wick
Directors: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen
Duration: 101 minutes
Cert: 16
When we first meet John Wick he is mourning the loss of his wife (Bridget Moynahan) in his uber-stylish suburban home, a place littered with memories of their happy life together. Before Helen succumbed to cancer, she organised the delivery of a puppy so that John Wick (he is rarely called just John) would have something to love while he grieves - action lovers stick with me!
Time and Daisy (a very apt name for a very cute puppy) would have most certainly helped heal John Wick, but a run-in with a bunch of Russian gangsters who want to buy his car, kick-starts a war that lures John Wick back into a dark underworld he thought he had left well and truly in the past . . .
Read Suzanne Keane's full review here
Good Kill
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Jake Abel.
Duration: 102 minutes
15A
US air force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) has served on various flying missions abroad, on F-16s in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he now finds himself manning drone strikes on Afghanistan from an airbase in the Nevada desert, near Las Vegas.
In theory, this might be great for his personal life - he can live at home with his wife and two children, technically safe from enemy fire. Work is just a short drive each day to the air base with an intimate little chamber where he takes his seat each day to try and achieve the 'Good Kill' of the title . . .
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
The DUFF
Director: Ari Sandel
Starring: Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell
Duration: 101 minutes
15A
For those of you, like me, that had never heard the term "DUFF" before, it stands for the designated ugly fat friend and is usually applied to the least physically attractive member of a friend group. Delightful huh?
The DUFF's job is to be the approachable one that guys can probe for information about their hotter friends – whether they're seeing someone, if they'd go out with them etc – and also to make their friends look even better by comparison . . .
Read Sinead Brennan's full review here
Fast and Furious 7
3/5
12A
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Kurt Russell, Jason StathamJordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Elsa Pataky
With the tragic death in 2013 of charismatic cast member Paul Walker, the latest instalment in the hugely-successful gear-grinding franchise comes well-oiled with added poignancy.
That's hardly a word you'd associate with a billion-dollar action series built on a luxury car fetish, speed, and comic book cliché but director Wan, who gets behind the F&F wheel for the first time, knows full well that Walker's passing is a moment of genuine sorrow for die-hard fans of the series . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
The Water Diviner
Director: Russell Crowe
Starring: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz Erdogan, Cem Yilmaz, Jai Courtney
Duration: 111 minutes
Russell Crowe talks to TEN's Sinead Brennan on the red carpet for The Water Diviner
As Russell Crowe's friend, mentor and five-time director Ridley Scott has said, the key to staying fresh is to do what you haven't done before. And so, like many an acting Oscar winner before him, Crowe has gone behind the lens to make his feature directorial debut. It shouldn't be a one-off - he does more things right than wrong with The Water Diviner.
Declaring himself a believer in Scott's theory that the best stories come from the truth, Crowe's debut is inspired by a real-life Australian father who travelled to Gallipoli after World War I to search for the remains of his sons . . .
Read Harry Guerin's full review here
While We're Young
Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfield, Charles Grodin, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz
15A
Duration: 97 minutes
Age and experience versus wide-eyed youth, digital versus analogue, and self-doubt and prevarication versus boundless energy and just, y'know, doing it. These are some of the themes in Noah Baumbach enjoyable inter-generational comedy set in Brooklyn.
It's a New York borough where settled forty-somethings and hipsters live cheek to jowl but operate in totally different spheres, a place where bearded young men and bohemian young women listen to cheesy vinyl, hold block parties, and possibly knit their own breakfast cereal. Actually, in this case they make their own ice cream . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
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