March 2018

Reviews 

Review – Bland animation ‘Duck Duck Goose’ is a limp adventure that fails to fly

08/04/201808/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, Christopher Jenkins, Comedy, Craig Ferguson, Duck Duck Goose, Greg Proops, Jennifer Grey, Jim Gaffigan, Lance Lim, March 2018, Rating: Poop, Stephen Fry, Zendaya

Duck Duck Goose is a Chinese-American co-production and it’s one with considerably more countries behind it than original ideas.

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Review – ‘Blockers’ is a sex-positive twist on the gross-out comedy, with female desire at its heart

08/04/201812/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blockers, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ike Barinholtz, John Cena, Kathryn Newton, Kay Cannon, Leslie Mann, March 2018, Rating: Pop

Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon’s new movie is a surprisingly feminist twist on the gross-out sex comedy, with added John Cena.

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Review – Bella Thorne shines in surprisingly charming romance ‘Midnight Sun’

07/04/201810/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bella Thorne, Certificate: 12, Drama, March 2018, Midnight Sun, Nicholas Coombe, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Quinn Shephard, Rating: Pop, Rob Riggle, Romance, Scott Speer

A charming romance is enough to paper over the inherent trashy cracks of Status Update director Scott Speer’s Midnight Sun.

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Review – Paddy Considine’s boxing story ‘Journeyman’ is a potent drama about masculinity

06/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anthony Welsh, Brendan Ingle, Certificate: 15, Drama, Jodie Whittaker, Journeyman, March 2018, Matt Insley, Paddy Considine, Paul Popplewell, Rating: Pop, Tony Pitts

Seven years after Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine is back as writer-director with emotionally powerful boxing drama Journeyman.

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Review – ‘Ready Player One’ is a rip-roaring adventure with an injection of pop culture nostalgia

05/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: 12, Lena Waithe, March 2018, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, Rating: Pop, Ready Player One, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, TJ Miller, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Steven Spielberg has distilled an exhausting book into a shot of pure cinema that is genuinely a joy to watch with Ready Player One.

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Review – Uneven blockbuster ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ is a charming, ambitious ride

04/04/201806/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay, Certificate: PG, Chris Pine, Deric McCabe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Levi Miller, March 2018, Michael Pena, Mindy Kaling, Oprah Winfrey, Rating: Pop, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, Zach Galifianakis

Disney’s big blockbuster hands Ava DuVernay a huge canvas, which she used to paint a flawed, but life-affirming portrait.

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Review – ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ succeeds via the joyous energy of John Boyega

03/04/201807/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Burn Gorman, Cailee Spaeny, Certificate: 12, Charlie Day, Jing Tian, John Boyega, March 2018, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rating: Pop, Rinko Kikuchi, Sci-Fi, Scott Eastwood, Steven S DeKnight

The massive robots and even bigger monsters of Pacific Rim are back for a sequel and, somehow, it’s really good indeed.

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Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – ‘Tomb Raider’ is an affectionate reboot that hands Alicia Vikander a franchise role

02/04/201806/04/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Adventure, Alicia Vikander, Certificate: 12, Daniel Wu, Dominic West, Jaime Winstone, Kristin Scott Thomas, March 2018, Nick Frost, Rating: Pop, Roar Uthaug, Tomb Raider, Video Game, Video Games, Walton Goggins

Alicia Vikander steps into the most iconic tank top in video game history for director Roar Uthaug’s reboot of the action-adventure film franchise.

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Review – Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone horror ‘Unsane’ is a brilliantly paranoid nightmare

02/04/201804/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Amy Irving, Certificate: 15, Claire Foy, Horror, Jay Pharoah, Joshua Leonard, Juno Temple, March 2018, Rating: Pop, Steven Soderbergh, Unsane

Steven Soderbergh shoots an asylum-set horror movie on an iPhone with Unsane, which sees Claire Foy a long way from The Crown.

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Review – ‘Mary Magdalene’ is Biblical blandness, with a Jesus no one would want to follow

02/04/201802/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 12, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Drama, Garth Davis, Historical, Joaquin Phoenix, March 2018, Mary Magdalene, Rating: Poop, Rooney Mara, Tahar Rahim

This supposedly revisionist take on the story of Jesus’s only female apostle is actually just Bible greatest hits.

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Review – James Corden is an irritating animated bunny in ‘Peter Rabbit’

28/03/201828/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, Certificate: PG, Colin Moody, Comedy, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Elizabeth Debicki, James Corden, March 2018, Margot Robbie, Peter Rabbit, Rating: Poop, Rose Byrne, Sam Neill, Will Gluck

This new animated take on the classic Beatrix Potter character sees James Corden turn Peter into a wise-cracking rebel with an eye for a song.

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