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Better Man Review

2024 has been the year of musical biopics, with acts ranging from Pharrell Williams to Bob Marley to Amy Winehouse getting movies about their lives. The year closed with an audacious biopic about the British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. As a child, Robert Williams had a flair for showmanship and cheekiness. The young Northern Lad dreams […]

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Gladiator II Review

Gladiator II joins the likes of Twisters, Alien: Romulus, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as a long-awaited sequel to a popular film. Gladiator II sees a new character forced into the Colosseum and potentially becomes a catalyst for change. Sixteen years after the events of Gladiator, the Roman Empire is ruled by the tyrannical twin emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger). The last […]

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Mean Girls (2024) Review

In 2004 Mean Girls became a seminal film. It was an edgy teen comedy that was a satire of high school culture, and female relationships and made many of the people involved stars. 20 years later the world of Mean Girls gets revisited with the cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical. Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is a homeschooled teenager […]

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Sumotherhood Review

Adam Deacon returns to the director chair with a spiritual sequel to his 2011 film Anuvahood and continues to satirise British urban crime films. Riko (Deacon) and Kane (Jazzie Zonzolo) are best friends and losers who live in a bedsit in East London. After being threatened by a loan shark they have to find a way to […]