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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Catherine Bray

    The Last First: Winter K2 review – race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of regrettable traits (opens the original)

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    Amir Bar-Lev’s doc covering competing climbers trying to achieve something that has not been done before uncovers a fascinating tapestry of ambition and folly During the Covid pandemic in 2021, a “last first” in mountaineering was achieved: the forbidding K2 mountain was scaled in winter for the first time. Amir Bar-Lev’s mountain-climbing doc tells the story of the competing climbers simultaneously hoping to reach the summit, several of whom do not survive the attempt. Far from being th

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Catherine Bray

    The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core (opens the original)

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    Iko Uwais directs and acts in the story of a band of elite soldiers who must rescue a group of researchers taken captive in the jungle Can an elite team of soldiers rescue a band of innocent hostages from a bunch of mean old terrorists? Yes, probably, since there are few (if any) action movies in which the hostages are wiped out and the terrorists win. Not to be confused with the Extraction action franchise starring Chris Hemsworth as a mercenary named Tyler, nor with action thriller Escape Plan

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Catherine Bray

    Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza (opens the original)

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    The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together The seventh instalment in this seemingly never-ending series opens with a line of voiceover from star Craig Fairbrass, summarising forthcoming proceedings nicely: “They killed my best friend, now they all have to die.” The real-life hardman Pat Tate might have been murdered in his 30s in Essex in 1995, but that hasn’t proved a setb

  4. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Catherine Bray

    Hellcat review – woman imprisoned in camper van in nasty survival horror (opens the original)

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    A woman wakes up in a trailer as it speeds along in this effective and icky thriller, though you do end up wondering when you (and she) will ever get out This survival thriller-horror starts in “what would you do?” mode, as a young woman wakes up in the back of a moving camper van with some sort of hideous wound on her arm. Well, what would you do? Lena (Dakota Gorman) approaches things fairly logically, first checking out her surroundings: under other circumstances the trailer would be quit

  5. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Catherine Bray

    The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas (opens the original)

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    Offerman leads a talented cast, but this preschool picture book spinoff fails to inspire Grumpy Mr Fish (Nick Offerman) has a reputation for being a sourpuss, but when he teams up with baby sea dragon Pip (Nina Oyama) to locate a wish-granting fish, it’s pretty much guaranteed that we will discover some sort of heart of gold lurking beneath his gloomy exterior. Not that a picture book for the two to four-year-old crowd can’t be expanded into a satisfying narrative feature film universe, but

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