John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch
The juxtaposition of cute children and grown-up subject matter has been a staple of comedies ranging from South Park to Little Monsters, but American comedian John Mulaney gives it a […]
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The Lego Movie 2
The follow-up to the wildly successful Lego Movie takes upbeat builder Emmett (Chris Pratt) into space to the Systar System in search of his his friends who have been abducted […]
Matilda
Carrie meets Malcolm in the Middle in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation. Danny DeVito directs this tale of a telekinetic Lisa Simpson (Mara Wilson) with the same heightened physicality displayed in […]
The Witches
A boy and his grandma (Jasen Fisher and Mai Zetterling) go on holiday together only to find themselves sharing a hotel with the conference from hell – a gathering of […]
The Grinch
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
Frozen
I finally set out to watch the phenomenon and biggest-grossing film of 2013 when stuck for 11 hours on a plane, but it’s actually not a very good plane movie. […]
Shrek Forever After
The final instalment in the increasingly meandering and confusing fairytale parody saga sees Shrek experience a mid-life crisis. Yes seriously. But instead of buying a leather jacket and having an […]
Shrek the Third
Soon after the events of Shrek 2, the frog king of Far Far Away (John Cleese) is dying. On his deathbed (or lily pad) he names Shrek (Mike Myers) as […]
Mary Poppins
With this week’s release of Saving Mr Banks, about the troubled production of Mary Poppins, I decided to re-watch the classic film, to see if it was worth Walt Disney […]
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) and his friends are back for seconds in this family food-based caper. The island of Swallow Falls, left full of food at the end of the […]
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