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Aladdin
Odd as it sounds I believe Disney may have missed a trick by not, somehow, placing these live-action interpretations of their classic...
Rocketman
With so many biopics being released in recent times we can start to hone in on and deduce what makes a truly great one. I believe the...
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Revolution. Evolution. Changing the formula. Preconceived expectations. When is the right time to ‘update’ an existing franchise? In most...
Tolkien
A biopic has the unenviable duty of people pleasing. How best to convey a real person’s life that presents them as they are, prints the...
Avengers: Endgame
Much as with last year's Infinity War, you don't need any encouragement, good or ill, to go and see Avengers: Endgame in the cinema (IMAX...
Eighth Grade
It’s easy to romanticise the past and slip into cringey ‘it was better in my day’ rhetoric but Eighth Grade really does articulate and...
Shazam!
As a superhero fan it would be downright wrong to say that there’s too many superhero films, you can never have too much of a good thing...
Mid90's
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, vintage hip hop (Wu Tang, Tupac et al) and Goodfellas are just three examples of things from the 90’s we...
Captain Marvel
Marvel have long been at the stage where they can do anything they damn well please. That much has been apparent for a while as each film...
Green Book
Picking an Oscar Best Picture winner from this year's nominees can't have been an easy task (aside from ensuring Bohemian Rhapsody got...
If Beale Street Could Talk
The drama genre has had a bit of a renaissance in recent times with slow-building, realistic cinema hoovering up the big awards: think...
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
We were told five years ago now, in a thinly veiled bit of irony, that ‘Everything Is Awesome’, that we should stick together and be open...
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