Callan Mulvey Archives

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Rating: ★★

Apr 5, 2014Comic-Book Superhero

Captain America's second solo outing feels more like a Mission: Impossible film or an episode of 24 than a superhero film. Lots of Marvel continuity and fanservice and you are taken aback at how political it is prepared to be

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Actors: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 April 201428 December 2025 by Roog

Miss Meadows (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 22, 2015Perfectly Mannered and Polite Vigilante

There is an irresistible appeal to this film – Katie Holmes as a perfect, sweetly smiling Miss Manners dressed in Sunday Best who, in between correcting people's manners and punctuation, is also a gun-toting vigilante in the best tradition of Charles Bronson

Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins

Actors: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey, Jean Smart, …

Category: Horror

22 March 20158 January 2025 by Roog

Beyond Skyline (2017)

Rating: ★

Jan 7, 2018Alien Invasion

Skyline was a modest alien invasion film; this is a long-planned sequel. The new director has simply turned it into an action film and tediously deals with every alien encounter with gunfire, stunts and explosions

Director: Liam O'Donnell

Actors: Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Jonny Weston, Callan Mulvey, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 January 201827 November 2025 by Roog

Bleeding Steel (2017)

Rating: ★★

Feb 29, 2024SF Action Film

Jackie Chan starring action film that reads like an earthbound Star Wars with he up against a villain in black and his army of super-soldiers

Director: Leo Zhang

Actors: Jackie Chan, Show Lo, Nanan Ou-Yang, Erica Xia-Hou, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 February 20249 September 2025 by Roog

Delirium (2018)

Rating: ★★

Jun 27, 2022Home Detention Detainee Has Possible Hallucinations

Blumhouse film that stars Topher Grace as an asylum detainee who is released to home detention and may or may not be hallucinating seeing figures inside the house

Director: Dennis Iliadis

Actors: Topher Grace, Genesis Rodriguez, Patricia Clarkson, Callan Mulvey, …

Category: Horror

27 June 20227 May 2026 by Roog

Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 13, 2021Gremlins on a Plane

Chloe Grace Moretz stars in a quite reasonable WWII-set story about gremlins amok aboard a plane

Director: Roseanne Liang

Actors: Chloe Grace Moretz, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, …

Category: Horror

13 February 202121 March 2021 by Roog

Children of the Corn (2020)

Rating: ★

Oct 8, 2023Pagan Child Cult

The Stephen King short story only runs to 16 pages. This is the eleventh film spinoff to date (which runs at about one film per 1.4 pages of story). Unlike the other sequels, this claims to be an origin story

Director: Kurt Wimmer

Actors: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence, …

Category: Horror

8 October 202319 May 2026 by Roog

Breach (2020)

Rating: ★★

Apr 14, 2025Parasites Aboard a Space Mission

Another of the last films made by Bruce Willis, before his retirement. Here Bruce is on form and gives a decent performance. The film is an Alien copy with the crew of a space mission under attack by a parasitic lifeform

Director: John Suits

Actors: Bruce Willis, Rachel Nichols, Thomas Jane, Coody Kearsley, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 April 202511 December 2025 by Roog