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F1: The Movie (Joseph Kosinski, 2025) & The Waterfront (Kevin Williamson, Netflix series, 2025)
I’ve got two new reviews for you today: First up it’s the action spectacle F1: The Movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt, and…
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Elio (Pixar, 2025) & Elemental (Pixar, 2023)
Elio is an amusing space (mis)adventure about a young boy whose sees his biggest wish come true: to be abducted by aliens.
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Classic Movie: Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997) & North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
It had been a minute since I watched Jackie Brown (1997), and when I recently found it on Prime Video I originally just pressed play to re-watch the…
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How To Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, 2025) & Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Kirk DeMicco, 2023)
How To Train Your Dragon is the not too shabby live action remake of the beloved animated feature, that will provide a lot of families with the sort of…
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The Survivors (Netflix series, 2025) & Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix series, 2024)
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Vittoria (Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman, 2024)
Vittoria is a powerful and affecting movie, about an Italian mother who goes to extremes to make her family complete by adopting a daughter.
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May 2025

Dept. Q (Scott Frank, Netflix series, 2025) & Bodkin (Jez Scharf, Netflix series, 2024)
I’ve got two reviews for you today: First up it is Dept.
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Karate Kid: Legends (Jonathan Entwistle, 2025)
Solid but entertaining from start to finish, Karate Kid: Legends is nothing to write home about if you’re not the target audience, but it gets the job…
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Modern Classic: No Bears (Jafar Panahi, 2022)
Congratulations to Jafar Panahi for winning the Golden Palm in Cannes for his new movie It Was Just An Accident, perhaps the crowning achievement of his…
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Sirens (Netflix series, 2025)
Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore star in Sirens, a dark but delightful comedy drama, that really packs a punch.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) & Dead Reckoning (2023)
Dear readers, today I’ve got not one but two Mission Impossible reviews for you.
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Secrets We Keep (Netflix series, 2025)
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