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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
“Remember what the MPAA says: horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don’t say any naughty words! That’s what this war is all about!” Such is the cry of an impassioned mother in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s big screen outing for their most famous creation. South…
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A Haunting in Venice (2023)
I just saw A Haunting in Venice and it was first-class junk. I’m not sure what Kenneth Branagh’s motivation is to keep making these Poirot adaptations. He doesn’t seem to like the character much and from what I’ve read he’s not exactly making money hand over fist with them. His Murder on the Orient Express…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Released seven years after the 1984 original, Terminator 2 famously makes a protagonist of the original villain, having Arnie sent back in time not to kill future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) but to protect him from another killing machine, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a mass of liquid metal that can assume the shape…
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The Blackening (2023)
I just saw The Blackening and it was good. Based on a comedy sketch, it’s a satirical slasher film starring a black cast of actors playing former college friends who reunite at a cabin in the woods, but not before a couple of them make a rest stop at the proverbial rustic gas station run…
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
I just saw Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey for its 55th anniversary at my local cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d seen it before but previously felt that it was a good but cold film, lacking in story apart from the section with HAL 9000 and without human interest. I…
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Strays (2023)
I just saw Strays, a live-action CGI comedy directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Dan Perrault, where effects are used to animate the mouths of real dogs. Will Ferrell voices Reggie, a border terrier whose owner Doug (Will Forte) is a disgusting wad of human garbage who only has him because his ex wanted…
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Enter the Dragon (1973)
Saw this movie for its 50th anniversary at my local cinema. I’d never seen it before, but it’s one of those movies whose tropes you’re aware of via osmosis. Having finally seen it, I was pleased to have found it a riotously entertaining piece of work, one of the more involving and fun movies that I’ve seen this year. The…
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Haunted Mansion (2023)
Based on a theme park ride, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is one of their few live-action films in a while to not be a bastardisation of one of their animated classics. It also has a lively sense of humour and real energy to its storytelling, harkening back to the first Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Co-written by Seth Rogan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a surprisingly fun and effective cartoon feature, drawn in the kinetic, impressionistic style of the SpiderVerse movies and scored with a thumping mix of modern and classic pop standards. It seems that with this combination studios have re-energised comic-book films to a super-heroic degree,…
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Talk to Me (2022)
Directed by YouTube stars the Philippou brothers, Talk to Me is a surprisingly clever twist on The Monkey’s Paw, the 1902 ghost story by WW Jacobs in which the titular mummified paw grants wishes with terrible consequences. This time the paw is an embalmed human hand covered in names like a plaster cast, and the…
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