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Review of the Year – Best Films of 2018

31/12/201830/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, A Quiet Place, Anna and the Apocalypse, Annihilation, Avengers: Infinity War, Best Films of 2018, Black Panther, Coco, Creed 2, First Man, First Reformed, Ghost Stories, Hereditary, Lady Bird, Love Simon, Mandy, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Phantom Thread, Red Sparrow, Revenge, Review of 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Shape of Water, Venom

From Avengers: Infinity War to Phantom Thread and Hereditary, here are the best films of 2018 from the Popcorn Muncher Podcast team.

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There is awards buzz surrounding Toni Collette's performance in Hereditary

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 110 – Is Hereditary really the new Exorcist?

25/06/201824/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ari Aster, Creed 2, Hereditary, Michael B Jordan, Podcast, Robert Zemeckis, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Super Troopers 2, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Witches, Toni Collette

We take on the most exciting horror movie of the year on this week’s Popcorn Muncher Podcast, hosted by Patrick

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Hereditary and Ocean's 8 have been marketed in very different ways

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VIDEO – Mystery vs. Self Sabotage: Marketing Hereditary and Ocean’s 8

23/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Anne Hathaway, Ari Aster, Cate Blanchett, Hereditary, Milly Shapiro, Ocean's 8, Sandra Bullock, Toni Collette, Video

Hereditary and Ocean’s 8 are very different movies and they also had very different marketing campaigns. I take a look at their approaches…

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The Witch, Hereditary and The Babadook have all been described as elevated horror movies

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VIDEO – Hereditary and how ‘elevated horror’ dismisses the genius of scary movies

16/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alex Wolff, Ari Aster, Gabriel Byrne, Hereditary, Horror, It Comes at Night, It Follows, Milly Shapiro, The Babadook, The Witch, Toni Collette, Video

Hereditary has become the latest scary movie to receive the ‘elevated horror’ level, but is this a fair way to describe films?

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Toni Collette stars in Ari Aster's horror movie Hereditary

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Review – Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’ finds terror in the grieving process

13/06/2018 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2018, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, Ari Aster, Certificate: 15, Gabriel Byrne, Hereditary, Horror, June 2018, Milly Shapiro, Rating: Pop, Toni Collette

Riding a wave of critical acclaim and Sundance buzz, Ari Aster’s family horror Hereditary is already being talked about as a future classic.

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Chris Pratt and the dinosaurs are back in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

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News Round-up – Final trailers for Jurassic World and Deadpool sequels, Spielberg to take on DC comic and more

22/04/201822/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Angelina Jolie, Ari Aster, Blackhawk, Bo Burnham, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cathy Yan, Chris Pratt, David Leitch, DC, Deadpool 2, Ed Skrein, Hereditary, Idris Elba, Jason Clarke, Jim Hosking, Josh Brolin, Juan Antonio Bayona, Julian Dennison, Jurassic World, Jurassic World 2, Maleficent, Margot Robbie, News, News Round-up, Pet Sematary, Rafe Spall, Ryan Reynolds, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Suicide Squad, Sundance London 2018, Yardie

There were two big trailers this week, for the new Jurassic World and Deadpool movies, as well as news of an upcoming project for Steven Spielberg.

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Matt Damon and Christoph Waltz in sci-fi Downsizing

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 91 – Why is Downsizing such a gigantic mess?

05/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 12 Strong, Aardman, Alexander Payne, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Downsizing, Early Man, Evangeline Lilly, Hereditary, Matt Damon, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Podcast, The First Purge, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast

Alexander Payne’s massively flawed Downsizing leads the reviews section this week, along with an animated caveman and some soldiers on horseback.

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Evangeline Lilly in Marvel superhero movie Ant-Man and the Wasp

News Round-up – Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer, MacLaren to direct Cowboy Ninja Viking and more

04/02/201807/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ant-Man and the Wasp, Awards Season 2018, Chris Pratt, Claire Foy, Cowboy Ninja Viking, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Evangeline Lilly, F Gary Gray, Hereditary, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jungle Cruise, Kingkiller Chronicle, Lin-Manuel Miranda, London Critics Circle Awards, Marvel, Men In Black, Michael Douglas, Michelle MacLaren, News, News Round-up, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Sam Raimi, Steven Soderbergh, The First Purge, The Purge, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Unsane

Marvel’s first movie with a woman in the title has a proper trailer and there’s more good news, thanks to a big female director announcement.

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