January 2019

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 Round-up – Glass, Mary Queen of Scots, Fyre, Beautiful Boy

22/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Beautiful Boy, Bruce Willis, Chris Smith, David Tennant, Felix van Groeningen, Fyre, Glass, James McAvoy, January 2019, Josie Rourke, M Night Shyamalan, Margot Robbie, Mary Queen of Scots, Review Round-up, Samuel L Jackson, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Paulson, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet

Reviews of M Night Shyamalan’s unhinged Glass, the royal biopic Mary Queen of Scots and the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – Bizarre drama ‘Welcome to Marwen’ piles on the whimsy

15/01/201915/01/2019 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2019, Certificate: 12, Diane Kruger, Drama, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie, Janelle Monáe, January 2019, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Neil Jackson, Rating: Pop, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Carell, Welcome to Marwen

Steve Carell plays an assault victim who retreats into a fantasy world in Robert Zemeckis’s strange drama Welcome to Marwen.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Laura’ is a snappy, satisfying 1940s film noir

14/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1944, 2019, Blu-ray, Certificate: PG, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, January 2019, Judith Anderson, Laura, Noir, Otto Preminger, Thriller, Vincent Price

Otto Preminger’s 90-minute noir Laura is an enthralling and entertaining film noir that never outstays its welcome.

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Christmas and New Year Review Round-up: Holmes & Watson, Bumblebee, The Favourite, Welcome to Marwen

11/01/201915/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, 2019, Bumblebee, December 2018, Emma Stone, Etan Cohen, Hailee Steinfeld, Holmes & Watson, January 2019, John C Reilly, John Cena, Leslie Mann, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Review Round-up, Rob Brydon, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Carell, The Favourite, Travis Knight, Welcome to Marwen, Will Ferrell, Yorgos Lanthimos

Reviews of some of the films that hit the UK over Christmas, including Oscar-tipped The Favourite and comedy Holmes & Watson.

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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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