Sometimes I wonder if film makers have ever heard the expression ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. Remakes are the bread and butter to modern Hollywood, with original ideas seemingly thin on the ground of late, and one of the movies that no one seems to be able to leave along is The Secret…
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‘There’s magic in the woods, if you know where to look’ – Pete’s Dragon (2016) review
When you hear the film title ‘Pete’s Dragon’, I wouldn’t be surprised if the image of a real boy with a very green, very cartoonish dragon comes to mind. But this 2016 live action is in fact a far cry from the 1977 film it shares a title with. It may be billed as a…
‘Are You Dancers, Or Little Girls?’ – Feel The Beat (2020) Review
Let’s be honest here, if there is one industry that has actually done quite well out of this whole lockdown, global pandemic thing, it is streaming services. Be that Amazon Prime, Disney Plus or Netflix, we have all been kept endlessly entertained by streaming whatever takes our fancy. In the flurry of new content that…
‘I Will Bring Honour To Us All’ – Mulan (2020) Review
As time goes on, it would appear that live action remakes are becoming Disney’s bread and butter with Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and Lady and the Tramp all released in the last five years. The global coronavirus pandemic threw a spanner in the works for the hotly anticipated release of…
‘It’s a weird case from the start’ – Knives Out (2019) Review
The Whodunnit isn’t exactly a new idea when it comes to story telling and film making, and it’s one that we are all rather familiar with really, but that doesn’t stop it from being enjoyable after all these years. That being said, it has been used so much in so many films and television dramas,…
‘Every performance is an adventure with this group’ – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) Review
Over the years, Will Ferrell has become rather well known for starring in some rather out there comedies. What else can we say other than he plays crazy well. He delights in bringing these outlandish colourful characters to life and has often brought his own writing talents to the screen in many a movie. In…
‘I have to sing’ – Coco (2017) Review
Disney is best known for making films for children, and they are very good at it, but over the recent years, they have become better and better at creating films that not only entertain children but teach important mature lessons to them. In 2017, Disney and Pixar brought Coco to the big screen, bringing the…
‘I think he went back in. We have to go get him’ – Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) Review
It was back in 2017 when we were transported back into the strange world of Jumanji, 22 years on from the original. Where that famous first film brought the game into the real world, Welcome to the Jungle took real world people and threw them into the game, and now we are back with The…
‘If I wasn’t such an idiot’ – The Clapper (2017) Review
Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) travelled to Los Angeles in search of fame and fortune, basing everything on the promise of the ‘American Dream’, but instead he lives his days pay packet to pay packet, paid very little to sit in television audiences and clap along when told. He bumbles his ways through his days, only…
‘The noblest art is that of making others happy’ – The Greatest Showman (2017) Review
Now it’s not very often that music from a movie musical makes it into the mainstream world, being played on radio and television on a regular basis, but there is one movie musical that has achieved this, and that is The Greatest Showman. The 2017 Hugh Jackman led spectacular went global, and made stars of…
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