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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023
What an absolute delight. Funny - proper funny, not kids movie funny - full of inventive action sequences and thrills and with a bad guy that’s genuinely creepy and scary; perfect family viewing. I loved it.
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Aftersun 2022
A late 90’s set drama about a difficult relationship between a father and their child, where he simultaneously hates himself for being away from them and also chafes at the toes that bind them, leaving him in a state of perpetual self-loathing?
Too close to the bone, a very uncomfortable watch for me.
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The Cabin in the Woods 2011
Formula. Every film has one. Watch enough films and you learn the formulas, perhaps even subconciously; and it can ruin the film for you. It drains a film of tension, it makes a film predictable. And in no other genre is the formula more apparent than in horror.
The Cabin In The Woods (TCITW)has a formula too. It is no different to any other film in that respect. But while your Texas Chainsaw Massacres and your Excorcists and your Last…
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The Avengers 2012
I'm going to lay my Captain America trading cards on the table up front and declare that I am, and always have been, a comic-book geek so 'The Avengers' (I'm not calling it by it's silly UK title) was always going to be an easy sell to me, but , even I did not expect this film to deliver as much as it did.
For the unitiated, 'The Avengers', directed by Joss Whedon* is a straight up sequel to all…
