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TJ Miller and James Corden in animated comedy The Emoji Movie

Review – The Emoji Movie

11/08/201710/08/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Animation, Anna Faris, August 2017, Certificate: U, Comedy, Jake T Austin, James Corden, Jennifer Coolidge, Maya Rudolph, Patrick Stewart, Steven Wright, The Emoji Movie, TJ Miller, Tony Leondis

Critics are prophesying doom and damning the state of humanity in the wake of The Emoji Movie, but can it really be that bad?

Elijah Wood as Frodo in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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7 franchises where people always get the order of quality wrong

20/07/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Marvel, Star Wars, Star Wars: A New Hope

Everyone keeps getting franchises wrong, and Luke finds this very annoying.

Charlie Hunnam plays a legendary mythical figure in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

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Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

05/06/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Aidan Gillen, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Certificate: 12, Charlie Hunnam, Craig McGinlay, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bana, Fantasy, Guy Ritchie, Historical, Jude Law, King Arthur, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Kingsley Ben-Adir, May 2017, Neil Maskell, Rating: Poop

Guy Ritchie takes Arthurian legend to the streets, with added Cockney slang and baffling accents. Cor blimey, guvnor!

Yondu and Wolverine are at the forefront of "family-friendly" murder in comic book movies

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the increasing violence of family movies

24/05/201724/05/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Marvel, Michael Rooker, Their Finest, X-Men: Apocalypse

Are we allowing too much death and destruction in 12A certificate films? After Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the line is certainly finer than ever before.

Jamie Foxx stars in action thriller Sleepless

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Review – Sleepless

24/05/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Baran bo Odar, Certificate: 15, David Harbour, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Union, Jamie Foxx, Markell Watson, May 2017, Michelle Monaghan, Rating: Poop, Scoot McNairy, Sleepless, Thriller, TI

Jamie Foxx holes up in a casino and takes on almost the entire criminal underworld in drug deal action thriller Sleepless.

Gemma Arterton stars as a Second World War scriptwriter in Their Finest

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Review – Their Finest

10/05/201710/05/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, April 2017, Bill Nighy, Certificate: 12, Drama, Eddie Marsan, Gemma Arterton, Helen McCrory, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy, Jeremy Irons, Lone Scherfig, Paul Ritter, Rating: Pop, Richard E Grant, Romance, Sam Claflin, Their Finest

Gemma Arterton leads a rousing wartime romance with a refreshing core of feminism.

Alec Baldwin is a baby in a suit in The Boss Baby

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Review – The Boss Baby

23/04/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Alec Baldwin, Animation, April 2017, Certificate: U, Comedy, DreamWorks, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Bakshi, Rating: Pop, Steve Buscemi, The Boss Baby, Tobey Maguire, Tom McGrath

Alec Baldwin wears a suit as an unusually eloquent infant in DreamWorks animation The Boss Baby.

Scarlett Johansson stars in cyberpunk action movie Ghost in the Shell

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Review – Ghost in the Shell

16/04/201723/04/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Certificate: 12, Chin Han, Ghost in the Shell, Juliette Binoche, March 2017, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Rating: Poop, Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson, Sci-Fi, Takeshi Kitano

An anime/manga classic is remade for 2017 in Ghost in the Shell, but it has been somewhat overshadowed by a Scarlett Johansson whitewashing fiasco.

Elizabeth Banks in superhero movie reboot Power Rangers

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Review – Power Rangers

09/04/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Becky G, Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston, Certificate: 12, Dacre Montgomery, Dean Israelite, Elizabeth Banks, Ludi Lin, March 2017, Naomi Scott, Power Rangers, Rating: Pop, RJ Cyler, Superhero

The brightly coloured superhero team is back… and this time they’re bringing cow masturbation jokes.

Josh Radnor and Cristin Milioti in How I Met Your Mother

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Why the How I Met Your Mother finale is actually a tragic masterpiece

31/03/201730/03/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, How I Met Your Mother, Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris, TV

Luke argues that the series finale of How I Met Your Mother is actually the perfect way to round off the stories of its central characters. Bear with us on this one…