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.

Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning

After nearly three decades of exploding ceilings, sky-dives, and sprinting full-tilt across continents, Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) final mission is here — and it’s one with world-shaking stakes. Following directly from Dead Reckoning Part One, this franchise swansong pits the IMF, led by Hunt, against its most terrifying foe yet: the Entity, a rogue AI orchestrating a nuclear nightmare with chilling precision.

Christopher McQuarrie and Cruise’s now-legendary partnership once again delivers ludicrous stunts and jaw-dropping set pieces, but this time the stakes are personal. At 63, adrenaline-chasing Cruise proves age is just a number as he performs his own death-defying feats for one last ride. Expect tension, nostalgia, and the kind of operatic action only Mission: Impossible can deliver. 

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. 

Ballerina

From the world of John Wick comes an elegant new assassin: Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas). Trained as a ballerina by the Ruska Roma and raised to kill with grace, Eve goes rogue when her father is murdered. Her revenge mission sparks a war with a deadly crime syndicate called the Cult as her bloody path winds through Prague and Austria. Expect balletic brutality fused with Wick-style gun-fu, as graceful as it is lethal. With appearances from Keanu Reeves (of course!), Ian McShane, and Anjelica Huston, Ballerina expands the Wick universe while giving de Armas the centre stage — and the firepower — she deserves.

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.

The Gorge

Boy meets girl: it’s an age-old story. The Gorge takes that timeless setup and drops it into a remote, dangerous no-man’s-land, and gives it a supernatural and action-packed twist.

Levi Kane (Miles Teller), a battle-hardened ex-Marine sniper, and Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy), a mysterious Lithuanian operative working for the Russian government, are stationed at opposite ends of an isolated gorge. Their mission? Guard something they’re not allowed to question. Their rules? No contact with the outside world and absolutely no communication with each other.

But months into their year-long watch, Drasa dares to break the silence, scrawling messages that spark a tentative friendship — and then a romance neither expected. As sparks fly, so do suspicions, and the two uncover the sinister truth lurking in the gorge: they’re not just guarding a secret, they’re trapped inside one.

Directed by Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, Sinister, The Black Phone), The Gorge fuses horror, sci-fi, and pulse-pounding action with a hauntingly romantic core. Eerie, atmospheric, and brimming with star chemistry, The Gorge will unsettle and thrill you at the same time.

The Accountant 2

Director Gavin O’Connor and writer Bill Dubuque reunite for this critically acclaimed sequel to 2016’s The Accountant. Ben Affleck reprises his role as the calculative (literally!) Christian Wolff, who can solve any problem, mathematical or otherwise. But something is not adding up in his latest case, involving his old acquaintance, Raymond King (J.K. Simmons), and his protege, Marybeth (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).

Christian must work with his estranged and equally lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), who’s also a hitman, to get even with a web of killers who will stop at nothing to eliminate them. The odd couple might be a deadly dynamic duo, but they’re also pretty funny outside of all the bad-guy-killing. Come for the action, stay for the buddy comedy.

Mickey 17

If you’re a fan of Robert Pattinson, you’ll get more of him than you bargained for in this sci-fi dark comedy.

Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, who signs up to be an ‘expendable’ on a spacefaring colonisation expedition. Mickey is subjected to dangerous conditions as a guinea pig for the colonists, repeatedly dies, and is ‘reprinted’. Things get out of hand when Mickey 18 gets printed while Mickey 17 is still alive, as only one expendable is supposed to exist at a time. Now, both Mickeys risk being eliminated altogether. They must overcome their initial hostility towards each other to work together and fight back against the megalomaniacal politician Kenneth Marshall’s (Mark Ruffalo) control.

Mickey 17 is adapted from Edward Ashton’s novel, Mickey7 (“I kill [Mickey] 10 more times,” quips writer-director Bong Joon-ho). Bong, the highly acclaimed director of Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja, and Memories of Murder, explores his signature theme of class inequality against a big-budget, sci-fi action backdrop.