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Review – Submarine thriller ‘Hunter Killer’ is too dull to find campy charm

15/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alexander Diachenko, Caroline Goodall, Certificate: 15, Common, Donovan Marsh, Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, Hunter Killer, Linda Cardellini, Michael Nyqvist, Mikhail Gorevoy, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Thriller, Zane Holtz

Gerard Butler plays a rugged, maverick submarine captain trying to avert nuclear war in the big, stupid action thriller Hunter Killer.

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Review – ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ is a scare-free sequel

09/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ari Sandel, Caleel Harris, Certificate: PG, Chris Parnell, Fantasy, Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2, Horror, Jack Black, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Ken Jeong, Madison Iseman, Mick Wingert, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Wendi McLendon-Covey

The enjoyable family-friendly horror Goosebumps gets a bland and unimaginative follow-up with Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.

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Review – ‘Smallfoot’ squanders its thematic smarts with generic kiddie action

02/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, Certificate: U, Channing Tatum, Comedy, Common, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, James Corden, Karey Kirkpatrick, LeBron James, Musical, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Smallfoot, Zendaya

Channing Tatum and Zendaya lead the cast of Smallfoot, which is more famous for the Zendaya is Meechee meme than for its actual story.

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Review – ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ is a bloated neo-noir mess

30/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bad Times at the El Royale, Cailee Spaeny, Certificate: 15, Chris Hemsworth, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Drew Goddard, Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Thriller

Drew Goddard follows The Cabin in the Woods with his second writer-director effort – neo-noir thriller Bad Times at the El Royale.

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Review – Rowan Atkinson’s charm has limits in ‘Johnny English Strikes Again’

29/10/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Adam James, Amit Shah, Ben Miller, Certificate: PG, Comedy, David Kerr, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacy, Johnny English, Johnny English Strikes Again, October 2018, Olga Kurylenko, Rating: Poop, Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson returns as the titular hapless spy in Johnny English Strikes Again, which feels as curiously outdated as its protagonist.

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Review – Glenn Close shines amid beige surroundings in ‘The Wife’

26/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alix Wilton Regan, Annie Starke, Björn Runge, Certificate: 15, Christian Slater, Drama, Glenn Close, Harry Lloyd, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Rating: Poop, September 2018, The Wife

Glenn Close has crafted a performance worthy of awards in The Wife, but the film around her never raises the audience’s pulse.

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Review – ‘An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn’ is silliness in search of meaning

24/10/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Aubrey Plaza, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Craig Robinson, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Jim Hosking, Maria Bamford, Matt Berry, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Sam Dissanayake, Sky Elobar

Jim Hosking follows up The Greasy Strangler with offbeat comedy An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, which is oddly even stranger.

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Review – Mark Wahlberg is even more smug than usual in ‘Mile 22’

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Carlo Alban, Certificate: 18, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Mark Wahlberg, Mile 22, Peter Berg, Poorna Jagannathan, Rating: Poop, Ronda Rousey, September 2018, Thriller

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg join forces again, but deliver a thriller devoid of thrills with Mile 22.

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VOD Review – Wiseau and Sestero are blandly back together in ‘Best F(r)iends: Volume 1’

23/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Best F(r)iends, Best F(r)iends: Volume 1, Certificate: 15, Drama, Greg Sestero, Justin MacGregor, Kristen StephensonPino, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Tommy Wiseau, VOD

15 years after The Room, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are playing slightly twisted best buddies again in this strange drama.

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Review – Crusty crooks fail to inspire in ‘King of Thieves’

22/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Charlie Cox, Crime, Heist, James Marsh, Jim Broadbent, King of Thieves, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Paul Whitehouse, Rating: Poop, Ray Winstone, September 2018, Thriller, Tom Courtenay

Michael Caine and Ray Winstone lead an ensemble of old age pilferers in King of Thieves, based on the Hatton Garden heist.

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Review – ‘The Predator’ loses any sense of fun in a noxious macho haze

21/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alfie Allen, Boyd Holbrook, Certificate: 15, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Rating: Poop, Sci-Fi, September 2018, Shane Black, Sterling K Brown, The Predator, Trevante Rhodes, Yvonne Strahovski

With Shane Black at the helm and a cast full of lads, The Predator is so blokey that it can’t muster even a moment of genuine emotion.

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