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Articles Featured Popcorn Classics 

Popcorn Classics – #2 The Social Network (2010)

08/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2010, Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Classics, David Fincher, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Popcorn Classics, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, The Social Network

David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin joined forces for The Social Network, which dramatised the turbulent creation of Facebook.

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Reviews 

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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Articles Featured Multimedia Podcast 

The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 98 – Can Tomb Raider banish the video game movie curse?

26/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alicia Vikander, Avengers: Infinity War, Chris Evans, Deadpool 2, James Corden, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady and the Tramp, Mary Magdalene, Peter Rabbit, Podcast, Roar Uthaug, Rooney Mara, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Tomb Raider

Alicia Vikander has herself a blockbuster with franchise potential at last, as long as Tomb Raider is up to snuff. Is it?

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Articles DVD & Blu-ray Featured 

Analysis – A Ghost Story is a part-nihilistic and part-optimistic take on the power of memory

13/01/201813/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment A Ghost Story, Analysis, Casey Affleck, David Lowery, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham

David Lowery’s existential fable A Ghost Story manages to hold a number of different ideas and allegories in place with its unusual methods of storytelling.

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Articles News 

News Round-up – Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Lady Bird leads awards season charge, Mulan casting and more

03/12/201706/12/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Anna Kendrick, Avengers: Infinity War, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Evans, Chris Morris, Courage, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Garth Davis, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Lady Bird, Liu Yifei, Marvel, Mary Magdalene, Matthew Vaughn, Meryl Streep, Mulan, News, News Round-up, Niki Caro, Rooney Mara, Saoirse Ronan, Steven Spielberg, The Aeronauts, The Post, Tom Hanks

Marvel laid its royal flush on the table with an epic first trailer for the unbelievably massive Avengers: Infinity War. There was some other news as well… apparently.

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Reviews 

Review – A Ghost Story

22/08/201729/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, A Ghost Story, August 2017, Casey Affleck, Certificate: 12, David Lowery, Drama, Rating: Pop, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham

Director David Lowery takes an Oscar winner and puts them under a sheet for 90 minutes in this strange, existential drama.

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Featured Reviews 

Review – Lion

03/02/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Awards Season 2017, Certificate: PG, David Wenham, Dev Patel, Divian Ladwa, Drama, Garth Davis, January 2017, Lion, Nicole Kidman, Rating: Poop, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar

Dev Patel stars in a heart-warming true story of family and abandonment, based around Google Earth — obviously.

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Featured Reviews 

Review – Kubo and the Two Strings

18/10/201617/10/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2016, Animation, Art Parkinson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Certificate: PG, Charlize Theron, George Takei, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, Rating: Pop, Rooney Mara, September 2016, Travis Knight

Review of 2016 Laika animation Kubo and the Two Strings, starring Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey in a visually stunning adventure tale.

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Review – Trash

21/02/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2015, Certificate: 15, Drama, Eduardo Luis, Gabriel Weinstein, January 2015, Martin Sheen, Rating: Pop, Rickson Teves, Rooney Mara, Stephen Daldry, Trash, Wagner Moura

Review of 2015 adventure-drama Trash, directed by Billy Eliott helmsman Stephen Daldry.

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Articles Guest Posts 

2014 Oscars: The Big Best Picture Row

23/02/201423/02/2017 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 12 Years A Slave, 2014 Oscars, 86th Academy Awards, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuarón, American Hustle, Amy Adams, Barkhad Abdi, Best Picture, Bruce Dern, Captain Phillips, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christian Bale, Dallas Buyers Club, David O Russell, George Clooney, Gravity, Her, Jared Leto, Jean-Marc Vallee, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Judi Dench, June Squibb, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Fassbender, Nebraska, Paul Greengrass, Philomena, Rooney Mara, Sandra Bullock, Spike Jonze, Stacy Keach, Steve Coogan, Steve McQueen, The Big Best Picture Row, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tom Hanks, Wil Forte

A team of guest posters argue that each of the nominated films should win the coveted Best Picture award at the 2014 Oscars.

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Review – Her

22/02/2014 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2014, Amy Adams, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Drama, February 2014, Her, Joaquin Phoenix, Rating: Pop, Romance, Rooney Mara, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Jonze

Review of 2014 romantic drama Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, with Spike Jonze in the director’s chair.

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