Selina Lo Archives

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)

Rating: ★★

Feb 12, 2012Sword and Sorcery

The best of an otherwise lightweight, throwaway series. Roel Reiné directs some good action scenes, even if the hackneyed plotting never lets the show rise to anything more than average

Director: Roel Reiné

Actors: Victor Webster, Billy Zane, Ron Perlman, Temuera Morrison, …

Category: Fantasy

12 February 20123 July 2024 by Roog

Boss Level (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 20, 2021Timeloop/Action Film

You don’t think the mix of cartoonishly over-the-top action and a Groundhog Day timeloop scenario would work but this proves your assumptions wrong in highly entertaining ways

Director: Joe Carnahan

Actors: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 March 202117 November 2025 by Roog

Hellraiser (2022)

Rating: ★★

Oct 14, 2022Sadomasochistic Demons

A valiant attempt to remake Clive Barker’s glistening and brilliant original that only emerges as a better made version of one of the sequels. This has a disappointing tameness that would never have inspired a series of sequels

Director: David Bruckner

Actors: Odessa A'zion, Jamie Clayton, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, …

Category: Horror

14 October 202217 January 2026 by Roog