Derrick Bang on Film

In the Grey (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for violence and profanity Available via: Amazon Prime and other VOD options By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 10.4.26 British writer/director Guy Ritchie’s action thri…

Fuze (2025) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for violence and considerable profanity Available via: HBO MAX By Derrick Bang The devious twists in Ben Hopkins’ fiendishly clever script are ably matched by the multi-faceted, meticulously det…

Heart of the Beast (2025) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated R, for violence, peril, dramatic intensity and fleeting profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.27.26 The potentially dire impl…

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG, for no particularly reason Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang In a rare case of a supporting player overtaking the popularity of his former co-…

Tuner (2025) • View trailer Three stars (out of five); rated R, for violence, dramatic intensity and considerable profanity Available via: Amazon Prime and other VOD options By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.20.26 Of all the ways a fi…

Mayday (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence, action and fleeting profanity Available via: Apple TV+ By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.13.26 This film’s lighthearted, mismatched-buddies-in-peril tone…

The Donn of Tiki (2024) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); Unrated, but akin to PG, for occasional crime references Available via: Amazon Prime and other VOD options By Derrick Bang Ernest Gantt — possibly Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt — was the liv…

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The Whisper Man (2026) • View trailer Three stars (out of five); rated R, for bloody violence, disturbing images, profanity and suicide Available via: Netflix By Derrick Bang Director James Ashcroft gets points for maintaining a consistently creepy atmosp…

The Christophers (2025) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity Available via: Hulu By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.30.26 Once upon a time, this thoughtful character study would have arrived with a visible sp…

Normal (2025) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity and relentless strong, bloody violence Available via: HBO MAX and other VOD options By Derrick Bang Paul Newman went through a period, for several years following 1961’s The Hust…

Mutiny (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for considerable profanity and strong, bloody violence Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.23.26 Jason Statham’s action thrillers usually follow

Don't Say Good Luck (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for thematic material, fleeting profanity, teen drinking and mild sexual references Available via: Netflix By Derrick Bang Sunny Sandler’s delicately nuanced starring perform…

The End of Oak Street (2026) • View trailer TURKEY: No stars (out of five); rated PG-13, despite considerable violence and gore Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.16.26 This film fails — jaw-droppingly — on

One Night Only (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for frequent profanity, sexual candor and surprisingly little nudity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang Although one first must accept this film’s ridiculously unlikely prem…

Spider-Man: Brave New Day (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for action violence and occasional profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.9.26 After the chaotic multiverse comp…

The Dink (2026) • View trailer Three stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for occasional profanity and plenty of sexual vulgarity Available via: Apple TV+ By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.2.26 File this one under “Silly, but fun.”

Pressure (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for war violence, bloody images and brief profanity Available via: Peacock (free to subscribers) and other paid VOD options By Derrick Bang Director Anthony Maras’ fact-based drama opens

The Furious (2025) • View trailer Four stars* (out of five); rated R, for strong, bloody violence, gore and profanity Available via: Amazon Prime and other VOD options By Derrick Bang The dramatic paradigm shifts in martial arts movies can be traced to sp…

The Odyssey (2026) • View trailer Five stars (out of five); rated R, for violence, gore, dramatic intensity and profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.19.26 Not many screenwriters get to share a cred…

Enola Holmes 3 (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence and dramatic intensity Available via: Netflix By Derrick Bang This series continues to delight on all levels.

Moana (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG, for action peril, scary images and rude humor Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.12.26 The window between Disney’s animated features and these…

Minions & Monsters (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG, for animated violent action and rude/macabre humor Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.5.26 Minions features always have felt less…

Supergirl (2024) • View trailer Three stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for strong action violence and occasional profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang In and of itself, the notion that Kara-El (Milly Alcock) has become a self-destructive

Color Book (2024) • View trailer 4.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for occasional profanity Available via: Netflix By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.28.26 Writer/director David Fortune’s sensitively assembled little film completely er…

I Am Frankelda (2025) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG, for dramatic intensity, scary images and fantasy violence Available via: Netflix By Derrick Bang The imagination, craft and world-building in this fantasy — Mexico’s very first stop-m…

Toy Story 5 (2026) • View trailer Five stars (out of five); rated PG, for mild rude humor Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.21.26 The Toy Story franchise has been a marvel since the first film’s 1995 debu…

Disclosure Day (2026) • View trailer 4.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for action violence, gruesome images and some profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.14.26 This is 1977’s Close Encounters of the

Miss You, Love You (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated TV-MA, for profanity Available via: HBO By Derrick Bang Two-handers are a challenge on film, because they often feel like plays that wandered into the wrong medium, losing some of th…

Power Ballad (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated R, for relentless profanity and some drug use Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.7.26 Irish writer/director John Carney clearly loves music