Catherine Bray
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 7
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- Oct 1, 2026
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The Last First: Winter K2 review – race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of human ambition - AOL (opens the original)
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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 the straightforward survival-against-the-odds account that you might expect, this is a microcosm of some of humanity’s more regrettable traits, which rub up alongside ea
The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core - AOL (opens the original)
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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: The Extractors, starring Dave Bautista as a prison security expert named Trent, this is an Indonesian action thriller in which actor/
Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza - AOL (opens the original)
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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 setback for his invincible fictionalised counterpart, played to the hilt throughout the entire franchise with hard-headed gusto by Fairbrass. In this one, Tate is in Ibiza
Hellcat review – woman imprisoned in camper van in nasty survival horror - AOL (opens the original)
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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 quite charming, if slightly kitschy – floral curtains, varnished wooden panels, a “World’s Greatest Dad” mug and family photographs. Closer inspection reveals les
The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas - AOL (opens the original)
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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 this high seas adventure as personal growth is fairly by-the-numbers stuff. Based on the book
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