July 2017

Featured Reviews 

Review – The Big Sick

08/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Adeel Akhtar, Aidy Bryant, Anupam Kher, Bo Burnham, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Holly Hunter, Judd Apatow, July 2017, Kumail Nanjiani, Kurt Braunohler, Rating: Pop, Ray Romano, Romcom, The Big Sick, Zenobia Shroff, Zoe Kazan

The romcom gets real in stranger-than-fiction tale The Big Sick, written by its star Kumail Nanjiani.

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Review – 47 Metres Down

05/08/201705/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 47 Metres Down, Certificate: 15, Chris J Johnson, Claire Holt, Horror, Johannes Roberts, July 2017, Mandy Moore, Matthew Modine, Olga Kurylenko, Rating: Pop, Santiago A Segura, Yani Gellman

Holidaymakers find themselves in deep trouble, with predators circling, in shark attack horror movie 47 Metres Down.

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Review – Girls Trip

01/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Deborah Ayorinde, Girls Trip, Jada Pinkett-Smith, July 2017, Larenz Tate, Malcolm D Lee, Mike Colter, Queen Latifah, Rating: Pop, Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish

Move over, Bridesmaids. The brilliant Girls Trip is the closest thing we’ve had to a female take on The Hangover.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Free Fire (2017)

31/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Armie Hammer, Babou Ceesay, Ben Wheatley, Blu-ray, Brie Larson, Certificate: 15, Cillian Murphy, Comedy, Free Fire, Jack Reynor, July 2017, Michael Smiley, Rating: Pop, Sam Riley, Sharlto Copley

Ben Wheatley’s chaotic bullet ballet Free Fire is available on DVD and Blu-ray from next week, bringing the din of deafening gunfire, and Sharlto Sopley’s accent, to your living room.

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Review – Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

27/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Animation, Captain Underpants, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Certificate: U, Comedy, David Soren, DreamWorks, Ed Helms, Jordan Peele, July 2017, Kevin Hart, Kristen Schaal, Nicholas Stoller, Nick Kroll, Rating: Pop, Thomas Middleditch

Sometimes the funniest films come from the most unlikely places and that’s certainly the case with the lavatorial joy of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

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Review – Dunkirk

25/07/201724/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Certificate: 12, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Dunkirk, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Jack Lowden, James D'Arcy, July 2017, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Rating: Pop, Thriller, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, War

Christopher Nolan mounts a big, ambitious war thriller with Dunkirk, but does it live up to the expectations? And, more importantly, is Harry Styles any good?

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Blu-ray Review – Der müde Tod (1921)

24/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1921, 2017, Bernhard Goetze, Certificate: PG, Der müde Tod, Drama, Eduard von Winterstein, Fantasy, Fritz Lang, July 2017, Karl Platen, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensteldt, Rating: Pop, Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Walter Janssen

Fritz Lang crafts a masterful slice of Expressionist cinema with Der müde Tod, in which a lovelorn young woman challenges Death himself.

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Review – The Beguiled

19/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Angourie Rice, Certificate: 15, Colin Farrell, Drama, Elle Fanning, Historical, July 2017, Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Oona Laurence, Rating: Pop, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola remakes an old Clint Eastwood movie with a dark, feminist edge in American Civil War drama The Beguiled.

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Review – Cars 3

18/07/2017 Tom Beasley 2 Comments 2017, Animation, Armie Hammer, Bonnie Hunt, Brian Fee, Cars, Cars 3, Certificate: U, Chris Cooper, Comedy, Cristela Alonzo, July 2017, Larry the Cable Guy, Nathan Fillion, Owen Wilson, Pixar, Rating: Poop

Pixar is finally scraping the bottom of its creative barrel with a franchise that was pretty slim pickings to begin with.

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Review – War for the Planet of the Apes

15/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Amiah Miller, Andy Serkis, Certificate: 12, July 2017, Karin Konoval, Matt Reeves, Michael Adamthwaite, Planet of the Apes, Rating: Pop, Sci-Fi, Steve Zahn, Terry Notary, Ty Olsson, War for the Planet of the Apes, Woody Harrelson

Matt Reeves brings a new chapter to blockbuster cinema’s most sophisticated franchise as he returns to the world of apes.

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Review – It Comes at Night

13/07/201716/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Carmen Ejogo, Certificate: 15, Christopher Abbott, Griffin Robert Faulkner, Horror, It Comes at Night, Joel Edgerton, July 2017, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Rating: Pop, Riley Keough, Trey Edward Shults

Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo lead a claustrophobic dystopian horror with palpable paranoia lurking in every dark corner.

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