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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Firstly, I wanted to like this but I find this generally disappointing, this is simply unfunny andContinue reading “Mini Film Review Volume 69”

5.3:10 To Yuma A small – time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. I got this film from my public library and I still vaguely remember this, this is wellContinue reading “Article: Top 5 James Mangold Films”

10.The Addams Family 2 Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time”. To reclaim their bond, they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Some people willContinue reading “Top 10 Halloween Animation Films”

5.3:10 To Yuma A small – time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. I got this film from my public library and I still vaguely remember this, this is wellContinue reading “Article: Top 5 Christian Bale Films”

8.Ratburger (Cert PG/Dir Phyllida Lloyd) A little girl called Zoe who is very sad because her pet hamster, Gingernut, died. Zoe lives in a flat with her dad and her awful stepmother, Shelia, Shelia is so lazy she asks Zoe to pick her nose for her! When Zoe finds a baby rat in the cornerContinue reading “Article: Top 8 David Walliams Books That Should Be A Film Volume 2”

10.The Matrix When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth – the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber – intelligence. I watched this film in my teenage years and I thought this is rather good, it got element of a dystopianContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Dystopian, Apocalyptic & Post Apocalyptic Films Vol 2”

10.Snowpiercer In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges. It is one of those film that can be rather full on, but underneath it all there is a brilliant storyContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Dystopian, Apocalyptic & Post Apocalyptic Films Vol 1”

A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts. Underneath it all there is a brilliant story and I like the moral of grief and that does work well, the CGI/SFX is outstanding andContinue reading “Haunted Mansion (2023) Movie Review”

Three Thousand Years Of Longing A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Firstly, I admire this film that try to be something different and it is colourful, for me personally it’s the pacing as it doesn’t hold your interest, it notContinue reading “Mini Film Review Volume 68”

10.National Treasure Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure – seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Foundling Fathers after the Revolutionary War. I got this film from my public library and I still remember this, it has got a fantastic story and the characters areContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Heist Movies”