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It’s almost Christmas, and you all know what that means. Time to grab a blanket, make some hot chocolate, and pull out the old A Charlie Brown Christmas DVD. That’s right folks- it’s holiday film season! But what really defines a ‘Christmas movie’? Is it simply the time of year, or does the genre go […]
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Image Credit: Google Cultural Institute/Smithsonian Design Museum Two years, two films, one character? While 2017’s Goodbye Christopher Robin and this year’s Christopher Robin both feature the titular character, the portrayals are so different that they may as well be entirely separate. Of course, this is partially explained by the focus of the films themselves, with […]
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Image Credit: Flickr – Brickset (CC BY 2.0) After fourteen years, and an intervening thirteen films, including two Toy Story, two Cars, one Finding Nemo and one Monsters Inc. sequel[s], comes perhaps the mostly highly anticipated movie of the year (move over Infinity War!). After this much time, is a sequel to The Incredibles still […]
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Image Credit: aitoff (CC0) With the runaway success of the original Paddington, it was always a matter of time before a sequel would hit the screens. And it duly did, taking StudioCanal’s biggest opening weekend box office in the UK. With many successful films, the desire to create a quick cash-in on the original’s popularity […]
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Scrap the popcorn and the all-American horror flicks, get ready to squirm to horror done the Asian way. Horror movies and I have always had a love-hate relationship. From a young age I loved thrillers and all things gothic, but come Halloween it seemed impossible for me to make that last jump (scare) into the […]
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Sheltering from the midday sun, I was grateful for the shade provided by the Phoenix Picturehouse’s second screen. I sank down into the seat and felt my shirt cling to the upholstery. Two became one, as I did my best Comic Book Guy impression, minus oversized beverage and ponytail. Collecting my thoughts before the Oxford […]
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