Rating: Poop

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Dave Made a Maze’ collapses like its made of cardboard

27/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Adam Busch, Adventure, Bill Watterson, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Dave Made a Maze, Fantasy, Frank Caeti, Horror, James Urbaniak, January 2019, John Hennigan, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Rating: Poop, Stephanie Allynne

Fantasy-comedy Dave Made a Maze is a strange genre hybrid that never quite lives up to its visual invention and clever central concept.

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Review – ‘Life Itself’ is maudlin nonsense that will exhaust even the most patient of viewers

04/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Certificate: 15, Dan Fogelman, Drama, January 2019, Laia Costa, Life Itself, Olivia Cooke, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Isaac, Rating: Poop, Sergio Peris-Mencheta

Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde and other famous faces slum it in Life Itself, which is an awful drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.

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Review – ‘Mortal Engines’ is an exercise in snoozepunk

23/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Certificate: 12, Christian Rivers, December 2018, Fantasy, Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Leila George, Mortal Engines, Patrick Malahide, Peter Jackson, Rating: Poop, Robert Sheehan, Ronan Raftery, Stephen Lang

Peter Jackson writes and produces YA adaptation Mortal Engines, in which Hugo Weaving gets villainous at the helm of a predator city.

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Review – Lars von Trier shows us his rotten soul in ‘The House That Jack Built’

23/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bruno Ganz, Certificate: 18, David Bailie, December 2018, Drama, Jeremy Davies, Lars von Trier, Matt Dillon, Rating: Poop, Riley Keough, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, The House That Jack Built, Thriller, Uma Thurman

Cinema’s top provocateur Lars von Trier delivers something very personal with the distasteful serial killer epic The House That Jack Built.

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Review – Technically stunning ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ lacks identity

18/12/201821/12/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Certificate: 12, Christian Bale, December 2018, Eddie Marsan, Fantasy, Mowgli, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Naomie Harris, Peter Mullan, Rating: Poop, Rohan Chand, Tom Hollander

Andy Serkis’s long-gestating take on The Jungle Book has finally arrived, but Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle has a great deal of problems.

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DVD Review – ‘The Equalizer 2’ is a flat, jumbled action sequel

18/12/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Antoine Fuqua, Ashton Sanders, Bill Pullman, Certificate: 15, December 2018, Denzel Washington, DVD, Melissa Leo, Orson Bean, Pedro Pascal, Rating: Poop, Sakina Jaffrey, The Equalizer, The Equalizer 2, Thriller

Denzel Washington stars in his first ever sequel with Equalizer 2, but leaves you wondering why this caused him to break his golden rule.

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Review – ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ brings Lisbeth back with a whimper

17/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Claes Bang, Claire Foy, Fede Alvarez, LaKeith Stanfield, November 2018, Rating: Poop, Stephen Merchant, Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Thriller, Vicky Krieps

Claire Foy takes up the mantle of hacker vigilante Lisbeth Salander in Fede Alvarez’s soft reboot The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

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Review – The latest ‘Robin Hood’ is a bizarre update of the classic tale

12/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: 12, Eve Hewson, F Murray Abraham, Jamie Dornan, Jamie Foxx, November 2018, Otto Bathurst, Paul Anderson, Rating: Poop, Robin Hood, Taron Egerton, Tim Minchin

Taron Egerton dons a hood and wields a bow and arrow as the iconic outlaw Robin Hood in this weird new take on the material.

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Review – ‘The Grinch’ is charmless enough to make misers of us all

11/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Angela Lansbury, Animation, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Certificate: U, Christmas, Comedy, November 2018, Pharrell Williams, Rashida Jones, Rating: Poop, Scott Mosier, The Grinch, Yarrow Cheney

Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Christmas-hating title character in Illumination Entertainment’s new animated take on The Grinch.

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Review – ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ is bubblegum balderdash

26/11/201826/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Certificate: PG, Christmas, Eugenio Derbez, Fantasy, Helen Mirren, Jayden Fowora-Knight, Joe Johnston, Keira Knightley, Lasse Hallström, Mackenzie Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, Morgan Freeman, November 2018, Rating: Poop, Richard E Grant, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Mackenzie Foy takes the lead in fantasy adventure Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which also stars Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.

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Review – Keanu Reeves snoozes with the audience throughout ‘Siberia’

22/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ana Ularu, Certificate: 15, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Keanu Reeves, Matthew Ross, Molly Ringwald, November 2018, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Rafael Petardi, Rating: Poop, Siberia, Thriller

Keanu Reeves looks as bored as his audience throughout crime thriller Siberia, which is a chilly and overly serious trudge.

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