Comedy… Movie #21 2023: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022) 20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023 There truly has been a lot of musical-to-film adapting in recent times, hasn't there? In the last few years alone we've had The Prom, Everyone's Talking About Jamie, Tick, Tick...…
adventure… Movie #20 2023: The Sea Beast (2022) 14 Mar 20238 Mar 2023 Okay, I'll let (all two of) you into a little secret: I'm writing this a few days before the Oscars ceremony. So I have no idea who got the nod…
Animation… Movie #10 2023: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) 22 Feb 202322 Feb 2023 The Best Animated Feature Film nominations are truly insane this year. Usually, it's a category that has one clear frontrunner with one dark horse following it, with the others often…
Comedy… Movie #83 2022: Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) 26 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 "It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights!" Yeah, yeah, I know this isn't The Muppet Show. But every time I watch anything Muppets related, I…
Animation… Movie #69 2022: Minions (2015) 30 Aug 202225 Aug 2022 Once again I am watching a movie purely because I'm going to see its sequel later on. I am not sorry, deal with it. In brief, Minions shares with us…
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 #38 2022: Cheaper by the Dozen (2022) 14 Apr 202211 Apr 2022 We are really never going to escape the unnecessary remake, are we? I mean, the 2003 Steve Martin Cheaper by the Dozen wasn't even an original - that was also…
Drama… Movie #21 2022: CODA (2021) 5 Mar 20225 Mar 2022 I'm not going to beat around the bush here: this movie absolutely destroyed me. I already had a feeling that I was going to like it, but I didn't think…
Comedy… Movie #11 2022: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 6 Feb 20226 Feb 2022 Who doesn't love The Muppets? I mean, you have to be a special sort of black hearted person to dislike them, right? Since I was a kid, I've always been…
adventure… Movie #226 2021: A Boy Called Christmas (2021) 11 Dec 20219 Dec 2021 Do you get the same sinking feeling that I do when you hear the words "Sky" and "Original"? Those two words honestly feel like the kiss of death to me.…
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