A Simple Favour begins by dropping you into your typical suburban hellscape of school runs, bitchy parents with too much time on their hands, and social media. Smack dab right in the middle of all this is Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), the super mum. Or the super annoying mum, depending on who you ask. When […]
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Trolls Band Together Review
Dreamworks is the home of many franchises like Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda. Trolls is another franchise for the studio and the Musical Creatures have a third film with Trolls Band Together. When Branch (Justin Timberlake) was young he was in a boyband with his brothers, but they broke up when […]
Stowaway Review
Stowaway is the latest film to show the perils and challenges of space travel. A three-man crew goes on a two-year mission to Mars. The make up of the crew are commander Marina Barnett (Toni Collette), medical officer Zoe Levenson (Anna Kendrick), and the ship’s biologist David Kim (Daniel Dae Kim). However, their mission is complicated […]
The Day Shall Come Review
Chris Morris made a real splash with his directional debut Four Lions, a dark comedy about four idiots who want to become suicide bombers. After nine years he returns to filmmaking with his follow-up film The Day Shall Come. Moses Al Shabz (Marchant Davis) is the founder of the Star of Six mission in Miami. He preaches […]
A Simple Favor Review
Based on a novel by Darcey Bell A Simple Favor is the latest film to capitalise on the rise of psychological thrillers as another small American town suffers another missing persons case. Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) is a single mum and a vlogger, a nerd who wears clothing with cats on them, overly eager to volunteer for […]