This films starts off well. Before the opening credits we’re treated to a lovely cameo by Jennifer Saunders playing the drunken mother of 10 year old Natalie. Natalie is transfixed by her tiny living room TV, watching the iconic Pretty Woman. Daydreaming of the romantic future her life has in store. Her Mum soon puts […]
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James Cameron has spent more than a decade trying to bring Alita: Battle Angel to the big screen. Based on a popular cyberpunk manga series by Yukito Kishiro, published between 1990-1995, he has spent that time refining the script and developing the world that Alita inhabits. And that’s pretty much what he now spends most
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A Discovery of Witches is based on the first book of the ‘All Souls Trilogy’, by Deborah Harkness. We’re in a world where witches, vampires and demons all live among us, carrying out normal human jobs and duties. Obviously these creatures are all aware of each other, and it becomes clear that there is a
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OK. I don’t do books, so wasn’t aware of the best selling book that Crazy Rich Asians the movie is based on. I don’t usually do rom coms either, but that only tends to be the ones where they’re the typical ‘boy and girl hate each other and are thrown together until they love each
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It’s probably best not to take this review too seriously as I actually managed to fall asleep during this movie at two or three separate points so I’m not sure how much of it I missed!! Note to self: Do not go on a brewery tour, followed by a tasting session, just a few short
The star-ship Avalon is on a 120-year trip to colonise a new planet, a distant world called Homestead II. On board are 5000 passengers, all in deep cryo sleep until 4 months before their arrival. The ship is on autopilot and is clever enough to diagnose itself and perform its own repairs along the way.
Every once in a while I think it’s only fair that I go with my wife to see a movie which is more in line with her taste than mine. She dutifully came along to see Captain America: Civil War with me recently, despite not being the big superhero fan that I am. So, now
This is a truly wonderful movie. Theodore is a lonely writer, separated from his wife. He installs an OS with artificial intelligence called Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) and she begins learning about his life and communicating with him regularly. This seems to be a world, similar to our own but with some very different
