Wonka is the latest film adaptation to take inspiration from the Roald Dahl novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This version follows a different route, bringing us the origin story of how Willy Wonka becomes a chocolatier, a story that while sweet, is maybe a little too sickly and overbearing. Starring Timothée Chalamet as Willy […]
We Have a Ghost recently landed on Netflix, directed by Christopher Landon, the man behind the surprise hits Freaky and Happy Death Day. However, despite the promising cast and crew, We Have a Ghost doesn’t quite hit the right notes. The film follows the Presley family as they move into a house that was abandoned
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Wednesday is an eight-part series which focuses on The Addams Family daughter as she moves away to attend a boarding school for the gifted. Created and written by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, the series is also directed and executive produced by Tim Burton, so you’ll have a pretty good idea upfront of what to expect from the style and tone of the show.
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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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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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts prequel series, set in the wizarding world during a time before Harry Potter. The franchise is based very loosely on an educational textbook from the Harry Potter series and this third instalment plunges us into a complicated, pointless story that is
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As I browsed my Regal app on Thursday evening, I saw a film that I hadn’t heard of before, Bo Gia, a Vietnamese film. I was intrigued that it was placed into the megaplex theater, rather than the indie theater, and there were also multiple showtimes. I figured that there must be something about this
The Witches is a 2020 retelling of the Roald Dahl children’s story, from director Robert Zemeckis. Remakes and reboots have been commonplace in the movies for quite some time, so it’s no surprise that The Witches has been given a Hollywood makeover, especially as it has been 30 years since the original film adaptation was
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Away is a multi-award-winning animation, single-handedly created by Latvian filmmaker and animator Gints Zilbalodis on a shoestring budget. It has earned a 100% fresh rating on review-aggregation website rotten tomatoes and, in what now appears to be something of a regular occurrence for me, it turned out to be yet another movie that I absolutely
As I settled down to watch this sequel to the 2018 Netflix Christmas hit, I suddenly realised how very little I could actually remember about the first movie. I know that Kurt Russell starred as probably the coolest Santa I’d seen in a very long time, Christmas was in jeopardy and there was a brief
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I’m always excited when another new Christmas movie comes along, especially when it looks as fresh and exciting as Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey does. Writer and director David E Talbert originally conceived this story as a musical play, but it now finds its home on Netflix as a feature film, and just in time
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Max Winslow and the House of Secrets is a family film, very much in the vein of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Maxine Winslow (Sydne Mikelle), or Max for short, is our Charlie Bucket, coming from a single-parent family and living with a mother who is struggling with debt. Tech-savvy Max is also a skilled
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Wolfwalkers is the latest animated offering from Irish based studio, Cartoon Saloon. I’m actually ashamed to say that before watching Wolfwalkers, I was pretty unfamiliar with their previous Irish folklore offerings – The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014) – but having seen this latest animated feature, it’s a mistake that
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This latest take on the character of Sherlock Holmes doesn’t focus on the man himself, but on younger sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown). With older brothers, Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) having left home, and her father deceased, Enola (“alone” spelt backwards) is now being raised single-handedly by her mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham-Carter),
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This was first written in January 2014. There is an update at the end of the article. After watching a documentary about the show, I was inspired to re-watch The Munsters. This was a successful American television show that aired for 2 seasons from 1964-1966 on CBS. In the early 1960’s Universal sold the rights
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It’s been a very long time since I played the Sonic the Hedgehog video games on my brothers SEGA Megadrive. I was, and always have been, a Nintendo guy, so since then my only experience of Sonic has been when he joins forces with Mario and Co for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
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