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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Review

There's fun to be had in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, but its overshadowed by the fear of letting the past rest in peace.

Ghostbuster: Frozen Empire has no chill I’m not sure there’s a cinematic franchise that has the degree of difficulty that GHOSTBUSTERS has in emerging from the original’s shadow and finding its own feet. GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, although entertaining, seemed resigned to not only dwell in the shadow of its forebear but actually revelled in it. It did, though, at least seem to want to draw a line…

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Polite Society (2023) Review

Polite Society is a gleefully bonkers genre mashup coming of age kung-fu comedy of manners built on sisterhood and self-belief.

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#2023 #action #akshay khanna #comedy #ella bruccoleri #martial arts #nida manzoor #nimra bucha #priya kansara #ritu arya #seraphina beh #shobu kapoor

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Seize Them! (2024) Review

The only joy in watching Seize Them! is witnessing the Elmlea of British Comedy curdle before your eyes.

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#2024 #aimee lou wood #comedy #curtis vowell #james acaster #jessica hynes #lolly adefope #nick frost #nicola coughlan #paul kaye

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Monkey Man (2024) Review

Dev Patel's bloodily brilliant Monkey Man is an Indian Marvel!

Monkey Man sees Dev Patel go ape Punching its way into cinemas, in part thanks to Netflix’s geopolitical cowardice, MONKEY MAN sees Dev Patel’s directorial push beyond the lazy “John Wick in India” bumper sticker appraisal. When an Indian orphan’s attempt to take revenge against the corrupt forces which killed his mother and displaced his people goes terribly wrong, he finds himself offered…

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Civil War (2024) Review

Civil blood makes more than civil hands unclean as Civil War examines the role of the press during wartime.

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Big Trouble In Little China (1986) Review

Big Trouble In Little China is a gleeful genre mash-up fuelled by Carpenter's sly humour, Kim Cattrall's old-fashioned moxie and most of all Kurt Russell's irrepressible charisma.

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#1986 #action #big trouble in little china review #dennis dun #james hong #john carpenter #kim cattrall #kurt russell #the porkchop express #victor wong

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Nobody (2021) Review

When it comes to revenge flicks, Nobody does it better than you might expect.

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#2021 #action #aleksey serebryakov #bob odenkirk #christopher lloyd #colin salmon #connie nielsen #ilya naishuller #michael ironside #Nobody #rza #thriller

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Dune: Part Two (2024) Review

Stunning in every respect, Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part Two redefines epic sci-fi cinema for the twenty-first century.

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To Be Or Not To Be Review

When it comes to Nazi-bashing, which do you prefer, sly satire or fearless farce? To Be Or Not To Be Reviewed

The remake or not the remake, that is the question facing wartime satire To Be Or Not To Be… In a universe where comedy and tragedy are locked in diametric opposition around the dark star of history, TO BE OT NOT TO BE exists in two distinct orbits: the 1942 original by Ernst Lubitsch and its 1983 counterpart by Mel Brooks. These films, while sharing a title, premise and much the same script,…

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The Marvels (2023) Review

The Marvels won't do anything to reassure those who feel the MCU might have lost its way a little but for True Believers, it's a lot of fun.

The Marvels is a lot of fun, even if it lacks focus. I’ve written in the past about how mediocrity would be the harbinger of the oft-prophesied superhero fatigue, identifying quality, not quantity as the critical factor. In the end, it’s what did it for the DCEU and its what keeps Sony’s lame duck universe from even getting off the ground. Ironically, Marvel has managed to create its own…

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My Life In Movies

Half a century of cinema: My Life In Movies.

My Life In Movies (Half Century Edition) A few years back, when Twitter was still a reasonably okay place to hang out, the hashtag #ThisIsYourFilm was making the rounds where you had to choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. As I’ve just reached the major milestone of 50, I thought it might be fun to look across half a century of cinema and list my favourite movies from…

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#1974 #1975 #1976 #1977 #1978 #1979 #1980 #1981 #1982 #1983 #1984 #1985 #1986 #1987 #1989 #1990 #1991 #1992 #1993 #1994 #1995 #1996 #1997 #1998 #1999 #2000 #2001 #2002 #2003 #2004

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Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) Review

By retreading the past, Kung Fu Panda 4 risks the saga's future. #Review

Jack Black’s as charming as ever, but the kung fu feels weak this time Returning to the big screen after an absence of eight years, KUNG FU PANDA 4 sees Po (Jack Black) wrestling with the next step in his journey: from warrior to master. Of course, if you’ve been following his small-screen antics, this is just the latest in a long line of adventures for our unassumingly upbeat hero. Then again,…

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#2024 #awkwafina #bryan cranston #dustin hoffman #ian mcshane #jack black #james hong #ke huy quan #mike mitchell #seth rogen #stephanie ma stine #viola davis

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Review

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife is microdosing hard. #Review

Ghostbusters: Afterlife isn’t so much haunted by the past as possessed by it There are always risks in raising the dead and, after 2016’s well-intentioned but over-eager misfire, you could have been forgiven for assuming the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise would forever more rest in peace. Of course, in the hands of Sony, nothing beloved is sacred or safe and so, inevitably, Ray Parker Jr’s iconically…

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Doctor Who - The Church On Ruby Road

With something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, #DoctorWho gets us to The Church On Ruby Road on time. #Review

With something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, Doctor Who gets us to The Church On Ruby Road on time Christmas is a time for treats – and also, on TV, repeats so it’s little wonder that Russell T Davies usher’s in Ncuti Gatwa’s era with a bit of razzle dazzle to cover up for some of the more familiar elements. In keeping with all of his previous festive specials,…

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#15th doctor #2023 #angela wynter #anita dobson #davina mccall #Doctor Who Season 14 #mary malone #michelle greenridge #millie gibson #ncuti gatwa #russell t davies #science fiction

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Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) Review

It may be a silly place, but Monty Python And The Holy Grail takes you to an Arthurian England you'll want to visit again and again. #Review

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#1975 #carol cleveland #comedy #connie booth #eric idle #graham chapman #john cleese #michael palin #terry gilliam #terry jones

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Doctor Who: Dragonfire

Dragonfire finds Doctor Who skating on thin ice but the future looks...Ace. #Review

Dragonfire finds Doctor Who skating on thin ice The fourth and final serial of DOCTOR WHO Season 24 brings us Ian Briggs’ DRAGONFIRE and a familiar chill to proceedings: the chill of dwindling resources and end of season lethargy that results in a story which never really feels like it knows what it’s about and that just kind of stops rather than ends. Although that’s not to say there aren’t…

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Scrapper (2023) Review

Scrapper is a bittersweet symphony of life, loss and the little things. #Review

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#2023 #charlotte regan #drama #harris dickinson #lola campbell