The Running Man
Few filmmakers today deliver action with as much wit and style as Edgar Wright. After helming electrifying hits like Baby Driver and Hot Fuzz, he now parlays his gifts into a slick new adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian sci-fi classic. 

2025’s The Running Man is worlds apart from the 1987 film adaptation. This time, instead of a hot-headed and muscle-bound Arnold Schwarzenegger, we get an effortlessly charming (but also muscle-bound) Glen Powell playing protagonist Ben Richards, a working-class father pushed into impossible circumstances. In a bleak future, Ben is desperate to afford medicine for his sick daughter, and his only shot at salvation lies in a deadly television game show.

Predator: Badlands
Returning after the acclaimed Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers, director Dan Trachtenberg flips the franchise on its head. This time, the hunter becomes the hunted. 

Set on the lethal planet Genna, the film follows Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young Yautja (Predator) cast out by his own kind and desperate to prove his worth. He’s on a mission to kill the legendary Kalisk, the apex predator on this planet. Unfortunately for him, every inch of Genna is hostile, from its savage creatures to its unforgiving terrain.

Jurassic World Rebirth
Extinction was only the beginning. Jurassic World Rebirth charges back into the prehistoric chaos with a fresh mission — and even higher stakes. 

Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the film follows covert operative Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) as they embark on a perilous expedition to retrieve DNA from three specific dinosaurs. The goal? A potential medical breakthrough that could change human health forever. 

Naturally, nothing goes to plan. Stranded in the wilderness and crossing paths with a shipwrecked family, the team must survive against deadly new dinosaur threats while navigating an environment where humans are once again far from the top of the food chain. With pulse-pounding set pieces and new prehistoric menaces, Rebirth breathes fresh life into the blockbuster franchise.

Tron: Ares
Dive back into the Grid in this sleek new chapter of the Tron franchise. The film follows Ares (Jared Leto), a next-generation AI engineered to be the ultimate super-soldier, who is pulled from the digital world into the real one. There’s just one catch: without the elusive ‘Permanence Code’, Ares can survive outside the Grid for only 29 minutes at a time.

As rival corporations ENCOM and Dillinger Systems race to uncover the code left behind by original Tron hero Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the lines between human and machine begin to blur. Designed as both a soft reboot and legacy sequel, Tron: Ares welcomes newcomers with open arms, providing enough context to jump right in. Meanwhile, longtime fans will relish its dazzling visuals, the darker, more serious tone, and nods and references to the previous movies. It’s a bold, neon-lit thrill ride that expands the Tron mythology for a new era.

F1: The Movie
From Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, comes a high-octane love letter to speed monsters and racetracks. Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a once-promising Formula 1 driver whose career was derailed by a devastating crash in the ’90s. Years later, he’s lured back onto the grid by an old friend desperate to save a struggling team. Sonny becomes the unlikely catalyst who unites engineers, drivers, and pit crews, pushing them to chase glory against impossible odds. Shot with real Formula 1 teams and races, the film delivers pulse-pounding sequences that put you right in the cockpit, capturing the raw adrenaline, danger, and exhilaration of racing at the highest level. Action aside, F1: The Movie is also an affecting drama about confronting past trauma and rediscovering purpose, grounding its motorsport chaos with emotional stakes.

Nobody 2 
Comedians turning into action stars isn’t new — but few do it with Bob Odenkirk’s don’t-mess-with-me charm, which propelled Nobody to sleeper-hit success. This sequel picks up with Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), the world’s most dangerous ‘regular’ dad, still juggling PTA meetings with his inconvenient past life as an assassin. This time, he’s moonlighting in the underworld to pay off the spectacular damage he caused in the first film, and naturally, that puts his family in the crosshairs all over again. 

Cue the bruises, bullets, and brilliantly choreographed mayhem. With action maestro Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us) now in the director’s chair, Nobody 2 cranks up the ultraviolence and the laughs. Hutch may be trying to reclaim a peaceful life — but he sure looks good wrecking everything in the process.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Who knew ‘first steps’ could involve this much cosmic butt-kicking? Marvel’s First Family — Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) — blast, stretch, and blaze onto the scene with this movie that some say is the MCU’s return to form after years of feature-film misfires.

Set against a quirky, retro-1960s backdrop, First Steps follows a team of scientists and adventurers — the Fantastic Four — who return to their planet, Earth-828, with superpowers after a cosmic accident. Their newfound abilities turn them into celebrities, but their world is turned upside down when the chrome-clad Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) arrives on their planet, announcing the imminent arrival of the planet-devouring Galactus.  
 
The action swings between practical stunts and stylish CGI, wrapped in a visual palette that finally gives the Fantastic Four the weird, wonderful treatment they deserve.

Road House
In this reboot of the classic action flick, Jake Gyllenhaal steps into Patrick Swayze’s shoes with a swagger all his own. He plays Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter turned bouncer at a notoriously rowdy Florida bar. Fending off threats from unruly visitors, he quickly finds himself in the crosshairs of a biker gang and a drug cartel.

Enter psychopathic mafia enforcer Knox — played with unhinged gusto by UFC legend Conor McGregor — and suddenly the fists fly faster than the beer spills. Grittier and more bone-crunching than the neon-soaked 1980s original, this reboot leans hard into its MMA-inspired choreography. The result? A visceral, propulsive action thriller that’s the perfect turn-off-your-brain entertainment on your flight. 

How to Train Your Dragon
In a Viking village where dragons are the enemy, awkward teen Hiccup sees them as something different: creatures with a heart. Defying his peers and even his father, the Viking chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), he befriends a mysterious Night Fury, whom he names Toothless. What follows is part enemies-to-allies journey, part soaring adventure, and entirely heartwarming. With breathtaking flight sequences, big laughs, and a story about rewriting myths and finding friendship in the unlikeliest places, How to Train Your Dragon is an animated classic that still soars today. The live-action remake, helmed by the original’s director Dean DeBlois, retains the heart, humour, and magic of the 2010 film while widening the scale of the spectacle.