July 2017 | | The Popcorn Muncher

Holly Hunter and Kumail Nanjiani in The Big Sick

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.

Mandy Moore in shark attack horror movie 47 Metres Down

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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.

Tiffany Haddish stars in raucous female-led comedy Girls Trip

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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.

Sharlto Copley stars in action comedy Free Fire

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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.

Ed Helms stars in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

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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.

Fionn Whitehead plays the lead role as a soldier desperate to get home in Dunkirk

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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?