Nothing comes close to the big screen. I spend as much down time as I can in cinemas. My church.
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
If a few recent MCU films have been unfairly written off when having many redeeming qualities, there is no defending the latest film.
Captain America: Brave New World deserves little in the way of words.
A movie which feels like it’s been cast off to those that churn out the sort of Hallmark channel films that pass the time of day when in a forgiving mood.
I’ve heard some say it feels like the Disney+ shows. The truth is it’s…
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025
After just about recovering from the emotional high of Gavin & Stacey’s glorious Christmas finale, I wonder if your average Brit is really ready for Bridget’s swan song.
If it is indeed that, but it’s hard to imagine how they could ever top Mad About the Boy.
It really didn’t even need to be this good, but how lucky we are!
The original Bridget Jones’s Diary I unabashedly love. A cherished Blighty classic of the early noughties, which Gen Z do-gooders…
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The Order 2024
A propulsive, disturbing thriller from Justin Kurzel, who knows how to make a film like this.
Depicting an early 80’s Pacific Northwest true story of an FBI agent trying to hone in on a movement of supremacists, hell bent on their cause. The Order.
The movement is led by a menacing Nicholas Hoult who continues to impress with his range as an actor. You wonder if Tye Sheridan will end up having a career as on the up as Hoult’s,…
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September 5 2024
I’m actually struggling to fathom how Paramount didn’t manage to promote this to a Best Picture nominee as it’s arguably deserving of the accolade.
At once a meticulous, riveting account of what it must have been like as ABC’s television sports team covered the events of September 5th, live.
What really hits home is its woven moral politics at play under the surface, as they cover the tragic day and discover that fine line between news entertainment and decency. A…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023
It rips.
Chris McQuarrie’s third time at the wheel is a thunder clap of adrenaline. Pushing the boundaries of what you can do with these movies to new levels, with an insane AI propelled plot to boot.
At this point I don’t want to remotely spoil the fun to be had, but rest assured this is absolutely cut from the same fabric as his previous two films. Frenetic from the off, scorching from set piece to set piece whilst miraculously…
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Gladiator II 2024
Well it took half an hour. I’ll say that.
For thirty minutes I sat there slightly ambivalent. Everything feeling all too familiar and not quite as sumptuous. The digital photography taking some getting used to, and everything not quite hitting as I’d heard.
Enter Mr Denzel Washington.
If Gladiator II pretty much follows its own formula to a tee (and who can blame it), its joker in the pack unexpectedly elevates it to a higher plain.
If you’d asked…
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