Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?

All these years and I still don’t know what the hell Freddie Mercury is singing about. I was hoping the Queen bio pic would provide the answers I so desperately seek. But alas, it does not provide. On more than one level actually.

I honestly didn’t know what to expect here. Most of the time, movies that involve modern technology or computers already look dated by the time they are released. I mean, try watching ‘The Net’ or ‘Hackers’ without snickering. And the last movie I saw that was set entirely within the confines of electronic devices was 2014’s ‘Unfriended’. Not a reference either. Turns out ‘Searching’ is not only quite the stylistic exercise, it is also just a downright solid movie.

‘Cold Pursuit’ sees director Hans Petter Moland taking the remake of his dark comedy/revenge movie – 2014’s ‘Kraftidioten’ – into his own hands. That one took place in Norway and had Stellan Skarsgård driving a snowplow when not killing a lot of people who were involved with the death of his son. In this version, the Rocky Mountains provide a stunning backdrop and Liam Neeson gets to do the same thing he has been doing in every single one of his movies since Taken. Well, maybe not in Men In Black: International.

Apparently James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar) had been working transforming the adaptation of this Yukito Kishiro comic for years, doing everything except for actually making the movie because… you know, he’s also working on a zillion Avatar sequels that I doubt anyone is waiting for. The only reason you can now finally watch ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ is because Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Desperado) liked the idea and folded his ass into the director’s chair.

What started with a dog getting killed, has turned into one of the most action-packed movie franchises around with hundreds of dead bodies littered at the box-office. The third installment finds über-assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) with a $14 million bounty on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassin’s guild we have gotten to know in the first two movies. With no one to turn to and nowhere to run, Wick can only face the army of killers head-on. You know what that means, right? A whole lot of gun-fu. And about a hundred more dead bodies.