Fantasy

Featured Reviews 

Review – Guy Ritchie’s magical ‘Aladdin’ challenges for the Disney remake crown

22/05/201923/05/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Adventure, Aladdin, Billy Magnussen, Certificate: PG, Fantasy, Guy Ritchie, Marwan Kenzari, May 2019, Mena Massoud, Musical, Naomi Scott, Nasim Pedrad, Navid Negahban, Rating: Pop, Will Smith

Guy Ritchie’s new take on Disney’s Aladdin, with Will Smith as the Genie, is a colourful remake of a classic 1990s animation.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

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 – ‘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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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – ‘Aquaman’ goes straight in as a top-end DC film

22/12/201821/12/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Amber Heard, Aquaman, Certificate: 12, DC, December 2018, Dolph Lundgren, Fantasy, James Wan, Jason Momoa, Julie Andrews, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Rating: Pop, Superhero, Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Aquaman, directed by horror maestro James Wan, is a mad and unhinged superhero blockbuster, but it’s up there with the best of DC.

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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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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 – ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ is as frustrating as it is spectacular

20/11/201820/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Certificate: 12, Dan Fogler, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Fantasy, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, November 2018, Rating: Pop, Zoe Kravitz

JK Rowling’s Wizarding World is back in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which brings in Jude Law and Johnny Depp.

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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 – ‘The House With a Clock In Its Walls’ has just enough Eli Roth to scare your kids

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Cate Blanchett, Certificate: 12, Eli Roth, Fantasy, Horror, Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, Lorenza Izzo, Owen Vaccaro, Rating: Pop, Renée Elise Goldsberry, September 2018, Sunny Suljic, The House With a Clock In Its Walls

Gorehound Eli Roth goes family friendly for Jack Black-starring gothic fantasy The House With a Clock In Its Walls.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘The Changeover’ sees Timothy Spall slum it in a tired YA tale

31/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, August 2018, Benji Purchase, Certificate: 12, Erana James, Fantasy, Lucy Lawless, Melanie Lynskey, Miranda Harcourt, Nicholas Galitzine, Rating: Poop, Romance, Stuart McKenzie, The Changeover, Thomasin McKenzie, Timothy Spall, Young Adult

Spall is the obligatory big name in The Changeover – a YA fantasy romance from New Zealand that never finds its groove.

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Review – Studio Ponoc makes its presence felt with ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’

04/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, Anime, Certificate: U, Ewen Bremner, Fantasy, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Mary and the Witch's Flower, May 2018, Morwenna Banks, Rating: Pop, Ruby Barnhill

Ponoc is looking to set itself up as the successor to Ghibli with this beautiful England-set anime, focusing on a school for magic.

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