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July 2, 2020
Movie review: Sonic the Hedgehog
As the cinemas are still closed, I’ll be reviewing recent releases on DVD and streaming platforms. This week, it’s Sonic the Hedgehog.
Based on Sega’s...
May 21, 2020
Doing romance by halves
Netflix brings us a heartfelt story about love, friendship, romance and acceptance.
The Half of It follows the story of Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), an...
May 7, 2020
Movie review: Extraction
Chris Hemsworth goes for some grittier action in this Netflix original movie.
In Extraction, Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, an Australian mercenary who is hired to...
April 9, 2020
Movie review: Spenser Confidential
For my first Netflix movie review, we’ll be taking a look at their cop drama Spenser Confidential.
The story focuses on Spenser (
July 10, 2019
LATEST SPIDER-MAN RECAPTURES JOYFUL SPIRIT OF PREDECESSOR
He may have helped save the world, but Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is still a teenager and is still growing as a superhero. After the life-changing...
June 19, 2019
MEN IN BLACK GOOD FUN
If a fictional organisation like the Men in Black is responsible for defending Earth against the scum of the universe, surely they wouldn’t just...
May 29, 2019
NEW MAGIC CARPET RIDE ticks the boxes new
Let’s take a magic carpet ride to another Arabian night. In this live-action remake of the 1992 animated movie, Aladdin tells the tale of street...
May 15, 2019
Not to be sneezed at: Pikachu is surprisingly good
A movie where Ryan Reynolds voices a talking Pikachu and also happens to be a detective? Sign me up. Set in the world of the...
May 2, 2019
WORRY TURNS TO HOPE IN AVENGERS: ENDGAME
If they can’t protect the Earth, you can be sure they’ll avenge it. After the devastation caused by Thanos (Josh Brolin) during Infinity War, the remaining...
April 18, 2019
Shazam! IS A WELCOME CHANGE OF PACE
Many kids dream of being a superhero, but what would that be like? Well, DC’s newest film Shazam! shows us just that. Streetwise 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel)...
April 3, 2019
LEGOSEQUEL BUILDS ON THE ORIGINAL
The quirky characters of the first Lego Movie return in The Lego Movie 2. Set five years after the original film, the city of Bricksburg has been...
March 27, 2019
She’s Just Marvellous
After many years of asking, the MCU finally given us female superhero with her own solo film. Set in the 1990s, the story focuses on...
February 20, 2019
Battle Angel Is A Dog
A little note before I review this film as a whole: any movie that decides to show how evil a character is by having...
January 23, 2019
Hiccup and TOOTHLESS share solid bond in Hidden World
Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless return for one last adventure in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Having now become chief of Berk,...
January 16, 2019
Blunt sharp in new Mary Poppins
Practically perfect in every way, Mary Poppins returns to remind us all to find the whimsy in our lives. Set during the Great Depression, 25...
January 2, 2019
Simpler Bumblebee is compelling and funny
This year, the Transformers franchise brings us a film that focuses on one of the sweetest Autobots, Bumblebee. The year is 1987 and, following the...
November 21, 2018
Grindelwald crosses a line that Harry never crossed
Eddie Redmayne returns as Newt Scamander in the latest Fantastic Beasts film. Following Grindelwald’s (Johnny Depp) escape from Ministry of Magic custody, a young Albus Dumbledore (Jude...
November 1, 2018
Emotional highs and lows in a starring effort
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga come together to bring us this new iteration of A Star is Born. In this tale, country rock star Jackson...
October 11, 2018
VENOM: IT MIGHTN’T BE YOUR POISON, BUT NO HARM IN SEEING IT
Adding to the list of superhero films released this year, Columbia Pictures brings us this spin-off film of the Spider-Man anti-hero, Venom. In this story,...
October 3, 2018
Clock is decent but would not give it more time
Jack Black stars as an eccentric warlock in this weird familyfriendly fantasy film. Set in 1955, the film focuses on a 10-yearold orphan named Lewis...
September 26, 2018
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN strikes the right balance
Get ready to go on a trip through childhood nostalgia. The days of playing in the Hundred Acre Wood have long since passed for Christopher...
August 15, 2018
Get your action fix with Mission Impossible number 6
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt for - what is this, the fifth? No, the sixth Mission Impossible. In this instalment, the world is under...
July 18, 2018
ANT-MAN and THE WASP is a stellar superhero flick
Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man. This time though, he’s got a partner by his side: Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), aka the...
July 4, 2018
Fans will be Incredibles happy
After years of waiting and much begging from fans, Incredibles 2 is finally here. Picking up where the previous film left off, the Parr family...
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