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The Wizarding World franchise should be one of the jewels in Warner Brothers’ crown. However, the Fantastic Beasts spin-off series has been suffering from diminishing returns, both critically and financially. The Secrets of Dumbledore has suffered from The Crimes of Grindelwald’s negative reception because its opening box-office has been disappointing. The Wizarding World franchise, particularly the Harry Potter series still has fans. It’s a franchise […]
We are currently living in dark times. There is war, a cost-of-living crisis, and a pandemic. We need some light relief and romantic adventure The Lost City attempts to offer that. Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) is a romance novelist who lives alone after her husband’s death. Loretta’s publicist, Beth (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) demands the author goes […]
The Derry Girls are back for one final season. The new season sees the girls (and the Wee English Fella) deal with exam result stress in an extreme manner. It’s the night before the gang gets their GCSE results. Claire is panicking because she fears the rest of the gang has failed, so she would […]
The third Fantastic Beast movie has a lot riding on it. The previous film was a disappointment to critics, one of the characters was recast because of personal controversy, and the franchise’s creator has become a diverse figure. So, the question is can it recapture the magic? A year after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald the […]
Winston Churchill famously said “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” This bodyguard of lies was used in the elaborate espionage mission Operation Mincemeat where British Intelligence attempted to get the Germans to divert resources from the defence of Sicily. The year is 1943. The Allies prepare […]
The history of films based on video games is a torrid one. There have been many failures on a critical and financial level. 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was considered one of the better video game adaptations and it has earned a sequel. Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) has found a way to escape the Mushroom Planet and […]
The quest for perfection is an elusive one and it serves as the subject of the indie drama The Novice. Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) is a college freshman who joins the university rowing team as a novice. Her goal is to master the sport and join the varsity team. However, her goal becomes a single-minded […]
Morbius is the third entry in Sony’s Spider-man Universe. This time the studio brings the living vampire to the big screen with Jared Leto in the title role. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a genius haematologist who has a rare blood condition that requires three blood transfusions a day to live. In an attempt to find […]
Dreamworks’ latest film The Bad Guys is based on a graphic novel by Aaron Blabey. This animated crime caper asks the question of whether stereotypes should dictate someone’s role in society. Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the leader of the Bad Guys gang. After the governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) makes a personal attack against the gang, Wolf […]
Ambulance is a film with a plot that can be summed up in one sentence: a couple of bank robbers hijack an ambulance after a robbery goes wrong. Michael Bay uses this concept for a smaller-scale film by his standards. Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a veteran who’s desperate for money to pay for his […]