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The Wrecking Crew (2026)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

THE WRECKING CREW is, in some ways, what the world needs: a buddy action movie starring Dave Bautista (WRONG SIDE OF TOWN) and Jason Momoa (BULLET TO THE HEAD). Bautista sort of publicly wished it into existence, and the public agreed it should exist. The catch is that it went straight to the Evil Shipping Conglomerate Prime streaming service, so it’s arguable whether it really does exist unless it starts playing on cable (which is possible, since it’s already happened with their ROAD HOUSE remake).

It’s directed by Ángel Manuel Soto (CHARM CITY KINGS, BLUE BEETLE) and written by Jonathan Tropper (co-creator of Banshee and Warrior, showrunner of See, also with Momoa and Bautista). Also Matt Reeves (THE BATMAN, UNDER SIEGE 2) is one of the producers? That’s odd. Anyway it’s nothing substantial, but I liked it. (read the rest of this shit…)

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Kate

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

KATE is the straight-to-Netflix Mary Elizabeth Winstead action movie produced by David Leitch and Chad Stahelski’s company 87North (formerly 87Eleven). As you’d expect from that pedigree, it has excellent action scenes, with JOHN WICK fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio acting as second unit director and stunt coordinator. He did BIRDS OF PREY too, so I gotta wonder if Winstead asked, “You got any more of those JOHN WICKs laying around?”

The screenplay is credited to Umair Aleem (whose only previous credit is EXTRACTION – no, not that one – the Bruce Willis/Kellan Lutz/Gina Carano one), and the story is admittedly more standard than a JOHN WICK or a NOBODY. Elite assassin wanting to retire, yes, but none of the fanciful stuff. Working with her handler Varrick (Woody Harrelson, DOC HOLLYWOOD), who trained her since she was orphaned, Winstead’s titular character adeptly infiltrates, beats up, parkours and rooftop snipes whoever they send her after (which seems to mean Yakuza bosses, since she seems to live and work out of Japan). The first hit we see is successful, but she has to kill the guy in front of his daughter, which upsets her so much she decides she’s retiring after wrapping up the job. The second one we see she misses, making it much more exciting because we get to see her leap and somersault across buildings to get a second shot and then improvise an escape, stealing some dude’s ridiculously pimped out pink and yellow ride for a SPEED RACER/2 FAST 2 FURIOUS neon-blur car chase. (read the rest of this shit…)

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