Family… Movie #89 2022: Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001) 9 Nov 20222 Nov 2022 Yes, yes. I know. I promise this is my last Halloween/spooky season-themed movie... for a while, at least. But why not end on something sweet and nostalgic like this? I…
Comedy… Movie #74 2022: Not Okay (2022) 13 Sep 202213 Sep 2022 Ever since I saw Booksmart, it's been a struggle to find another 'teen' movie quite so good. I know, I know, it only came out three years ago, but it's…
Uncategorized Movie #49 2022: Crush (2022) 19 May 202219 May 2022 When I was growing up, there was absolutely no teen-appropriate LGBTQ+ media. In fact, the only lesbian romantic comedy in film that I can remember seeing before the age of…
Animation… Movie #45 2022: Monsters University (2013) 29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022 Yesterday, it dawned on me that I still haven't seen all of the Pixar movies. All of the movies I've watched over the past two years and somehow I still…
adventure… Movie #42 2022: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) 23 Apr 202219 Apr 2022 They just don't make them like this anymore. Of course, kids these days are so accustomed to 3D, all singing, all dancing, hyper-colourised animated films that I can't imagine Atlantis:…
Comedy… Movie #40 2022: Fresh (2022) 19 Apr 202219 Apr 2022 I just love it when a film is surprising. There's not a chance in hell you'd know the tangent this film is about to go on if you didn't know…
Animation… Movie #26 2022: Turning Red (2022) 18 Mar 202218 Mar 2022 Time for a little break from this year's Oscar nominations because... well, because Nightmare Alley has put me off. I'm not even kidding; everything about it was such an anti-climax…
Comedy… Movie #8 2022: Raising Arizona (1987) 23 Jan 202223 Jan 2022 I'm going to say something that might be considered quite controversial in film circles: I'm just not that interested in Joel and Ethan Coen. *audible gasp*, I know. That's not…
Animation… Movie #2 2022: Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) 6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022 What's that? I've inadvertently made my first two films of the year both Olivia Colman movies? Whoops. I promise I will watch movies from outside of Colman's filmography at some…
christmas… Movie #227 2021: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) 13 Dec 20219 Dec 2021 There are a lot of bad remakes in cinema history. Psycho (1998) and Old Boy (2013) regularly top lists of the worst ones of all time. Enter Home Sweet Home…
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