A Beanie Feldstein led coming of age film centered around her love of music? It should be a perfect film for me, but after seeing the trailer a few months back, I was concerned. With some trepidation I clicked play on Amazon Prime this weekend. I’m not even sure how I made it to the […]
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I loved the first Kissing Booth movie and I think I must have watched it thousands of times. Since watching it, I’ve read all of the books in the series, the main one, the two on-the-side novellas and the newest: “The Kissing Booth – Going the Distance”, which is what this film is based on.
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Brittany doesn’t really follow any kind of self care regime. Living in NYC, she likes to party hard, eat unhealthily and regularly get drunk. She jokes around at work and with her friends, who all think she’s fun. But beneath that bubbly exterior lies some deep unhappiness. A visit to the doctor to try and
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I am going to preface this review by stating that I was definitely not sober when watching the film, nor whilst writing the review, but I LOVED Netlfix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. The film has been almost universally panned, but I was willing to give it a chance because despite every
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Destined to divide opinion, SCOOB! was to be the first theatrical Scooby-Doo film since the poorly received live- action sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleased way back in 2004, and amazingly was the first animated adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera creation billed to receive a full theatrical release – that is, until Coronavirus entered the picture! The
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is one of the new shows from NBC’s 2020 slate. Debuting at the start of the year in the US, here in the UK we’ve been a few weeks behind, with our most recent episode currently streaming on All4, ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Glitch’. The concept of the show is silly, and the tone of
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Zombie comedy movies tend to be a bit hit and miss. For every Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland, you’ll find dozens of others that fail to hit the mark. 2018 movie Office Uprising is one that managed to slip completely under my radar and had been sitting on my now extensive Netflix watch-list for
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Based on true events, Military Wives tells the story of how the very first military wives charity group came to be formed. That initial group was soon followed by more Military Wives groups, with some of the earlier ones even starring in 2011 BBC reality show ‘The Choir’, led by Gareth Malone. The Military Wives
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Ben Lyk is your average 20 something vlogger, trying to make his 15 minutes of fame happen. Unfortunately, fame comes in another way for him, as a Crime Lord decides to kill every Ben Lyk in existence.
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Two teenage elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot (Tom Holland and Chris Pratt), go on an epic quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him. The film starts with a
Softness of Bodies follows American poet Charlotte living in Germany as she tries to win a coveted scholarship and maintain a strong social and love life. I was quite excited to watch this film as the trailer had me intrigued – it looked like a brilliant fish out of water, coming of age story, maybe
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Don’t let the fact that Parasite is a subtitled movie put you off and believe all the hype you come across, as this is a must see movie and I was gripped, on the edge of my seat and thoroughly entertained for the most part.
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On the Greek island of Mykonos, preparations are well underway for the lavish Gladiator themed 60th birthday party of multi-millionaire and ‘king of the high-street’, Sir Richard ‘Greedy’ McCreadie (Steve Coogan). A journalist turned biographer (David Mitchell) is on hand to document McCreadie’s life story, and some of his interviews with various acquaintances and family
Living in a cramped sub-basement apartment, the Kim family dream of a better life. When a friend of their son’s brings a scholar’s rock and sets up son Ki-woo with a tuition job for a rich family, it seems like things might be turning around. Within one day in the house Ki-woo sees opportunity and
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Based on the famous and beloved novel by Charles Dickens, Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Thick of It, The Death of Stalin) brings us this fresh new take on David Copperfield. And it’s like no other Dickens adaptation you’ve ever seen before. Dev Patel stars as Copperfield, the star and narrator of the story which charts
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Despite being a huge fan of Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, I’d managed to miss out on Missing Link, the latest movie from stop-motion masters Laika, last year when it was originally shown in cinemas. Having recently won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, and on the receiving end of a
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