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Florence Pugh as WWE star Paige in Fighting With My Family

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – “She’s just a small town girl… from Norwich”

05/03/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 91st Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Cold Pursuit, Fighting with my Family, Florence Pugh, Happy Death Day 2U, Hellboy, Liam Neeson, Oscars, Oscars 2019, Podcast, Stephen Merchant, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, X-Men: Dark Phoenix

The career of WWE star Paige hits the big screen with wrestling biopic Fighting With My Family, which we review on this week’s podcast.

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Claire Foy stars in techno thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web

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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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Colin Trevorrow at the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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News Round-up – Trevorrow returns for Jurassic World 3, Solo to premiere at Cannes, Johnny English trailer and more

08/04/201807/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ben Affleck, Ben Miller, Cannes Film Festival 2018, Colin Trevorrow, Dwayne Johnson, Fighting with my Family, Florence Pugh, Fox Searchlight, Guillermo del Toro, James DeMonaco, Johnny English, Johnny English Strikes Again, Jurassic World 3, miller, News, News Round-up, Ron Howard, Rowan Atkinson, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Stephen Merchant, The Accountant, The First Purge

Star Wars IX’s loss is Jurassic World 3’s gain in this week’s news round-up, as Colin Trevorrow is set to return to the franchise that made his name.

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Anna Kendrick and Thomas Cocquerel in wedding romcom Table 19

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Review – Table 19

22/04/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Amanda Crew, Anna Kendrick, April 2017, Certificate: 12, Comedy, Craig Robinson, Jeffrey Blitz, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Rating: Poop, Stephen Merchant, Table 19, Thomas Cocquerel, Tony Revolori, Wyatt Russell

The new wedding comedy starring Anna Kendrick is an unusual beast, but it has a certain charm.

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Hugh Jackman appears as Wolverine for the final time in action blockbuster Logan

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Review – Logan

19/03/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Boyd Holbrook, Certificate: 15, Dafne Keen, Eriq La Salle, Hugh Jackman, James Mangold, Logan, March 2017, Patrick Stewart, Richard E Grant, Stephen Merchant, Superhero, X-Men

Hugh Jackman bids farewell to Wolverine, with arguably the most thematically complex superhero movie ever made.

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Marvel's oddballs reassemble for Guardians of the Galaxy 2

News Round-up – Super Bowl trailers, Star Wars spoof in the works, wrestling comedy and more

12/02/201713/02/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment A Cure for Wellness, Baywatch, Ben Affleck, Danny McBride, David Fincher, David Gordon Green, DC, Dwayne Johnson, Fighting with my Family, Florence Pugh, Friday the 13th, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Halloween, Jack Nicholson, John Carpenter, John Wick 2, Kristen Wiig, Lena Headey, Logan, Matt Reeves, News, News Round-up, Nick Frost, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, Scary Movie, Star Wars, Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens the Last Jedi Who Went Rogue, Stephen Merchant, The Batman, Toni Erdmann, World War Z

The biggest event in the sporting calendar isn’t really about the football… it’s about the trailers.

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Review: I Give It a Year

14/03/2013 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2013, Anna Faris, British, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Dan Mazer, I Give It a Year, Rafe Spall, Rating: 8/10, Romcom, Rose Byrne, Stephen Merchant

Review of 2013 romcom I Give It a Year, starring Rafe Spall, Rose Byrne, Anna Faris and Stephen Merchant.

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