Back in 2020, I was lucky enough to catch Wolfwalkers as part of the London Film Festival. It was, I’m still ashamed to say, my first experience with the animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, which already had a number of Oscar-nominated titles under its belt. Wolfwalkers ended up being one of my favourite movies of that […]
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Taking inspiration from the likes of Strangers on a Train and Clueless, Do Revenge is Netflix’s take on the Mean Girls style teen movie. While it might not be quite as good as its inspiration, this Gen Z adaptation is surprisingly a lot of fun. Directed by Thor: Love and Thunder writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson,
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After nearly 30 years in the making, the long-awaited sequel to cult classic Hocus Pocus finally hit Disney+ last week. Having been rumoured for decades, it seemed impossible that we’d ever see a return of the Sanderson sisters. But we finally have the sequel we’ve been waiting for, and it’s actually pretty decent. The film
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Pinocchio is the latest live-action adaptation of a Disney classic, now available to watch on Disney+. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this is the first of two Pinocchio adaptations to hit out screens in as many months, with Guillermo Del Toro’s stop motion version due in October. Unfortunately, this version fails to live up to the
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Day Shift landed on Netflix last week, an action comedy that has its own take on the vampire genre and starring Jamie Foxx as a pool-cleaning vampire hunter. But while it definitely has a truckload of action, it’s sadly lacking in any real comedy. The film follows Bud Jablonksi (Jamie Foxx), a working dad using
Based on the Japanese novel Mariah Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, action-comedy Bullet Train features a wide cast of characters, primarily assassins, seeking a case, or something related to said case, all while on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. We’ve got Ladybug (Brad Pitt), who seems to be followed by bad luck. Thomas the
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After the brilliant Thor: Ragnarok (which received a 5-star rating from me!), the prospect of Taika Waititi returning to not only direct but also write Love and Thunder was certainly an exciting one. Sure enough, the trailer looked as though we were about to get another winner – great soundtrack, incredible visuals, and a good
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The Duke focuses on the strange case of the stolen Duke of Wellington portrait from the National Gallery in London. In August 1961, the painting was bought using taxpayer funds and placed on display. Nineteen days later, Kempton Brunton (Jim Broadbent) sneaks into the Gallery through a tiny bathroom window and lifts the painting. Brunton
Released in cinemas earlier this year, Dog is the directorial debut of Channing Tatum as he stars as an army ranger trying to bring his deceased friend’s military dog across country in time for his funeral. Advertised as a buddy comedy, Dog is instead a charming, heart-warming and rather serious drama with a poignant story.
I have no issue at all with bees; bees are lovely. However, during the warmer months, when flies are constantly finding their way into the house, I can’t help feeling that they have it in for me, which can cause me to get a little… cranky. Why else would they repeatedly buzz around me instead
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Two years after the release of the last series, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is finally back for season 3. After foiling their second apocalypse, the dysfunctional family are thrown into yet more time travelling hijinks as they return from 1963. While initially, this season takes some time to settle in, once it finds its groove it’s
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a brilliantly titled film starring Nicolas Cage as… Nic Cage. Bringing an entirely new take to meta filmmaking, it’s possibly the most absurd film you’ll see all year. The problem is that instead of sticking to full-blown meta comedy, this tries to bring in an actual plot full
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Everything Everywhere All at Once follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) through the chaotic multiverse of what-ifs on her quest to save the world. Evelyn’s life is falling apart. She and her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), are on the brink of divorce and their laundromat is failing and being audited by the IRS. Her disapproving
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The Lost City centres around successful romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock). Still grieving the loss of her archaeologist husband, she forces herself to write one more book in her popular romance-adventure series using research that she and her husband completed together, and calls it The Lost City of D. After the release, Loretta agrees to
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Peacemaker is the latest DC show to hit our screens, following on from the events of last year’s reboot/sequel The Suicide Squad. Written and directed by James Gunn, the man behind both The Suicide Squad and the Guardians of the Galaxy films, it shouldn’t be a massive surprise that Peacemaker is by far the best
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Turning Red is the newest Pixar release now available to stream on Disney+. Moving away from their customary adventure, buddy style movie format, Turning Red is decisively a coming-of-age story, and one that Pixar has turned into a heart-warming, fun and adorably cute tale. The film follows Meilin Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a thirteen-year-old academic overachiever,
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