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From Illumination Entertainment (or eeyluminayshuunn as the Minions call it) comes The Secret Life of Pets. Starring Louis C.K. as Max, the main dog protagonist, and Kevin Hart as a small, fluffy white rabbit (stay with me), Pets is Illumination’s answer to “what can the studio do next that...
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When Bo Burnham’s hour-long standup special dropped as a Netflix exclusive last week, I was unsure whether it was fit to be analysed as part of the TV section. It was released on an online television and film network, true, yet anyone who is familiar with Bo’s previous performances-...
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In celebration of Burton’s new film Alice Through The Looking Glass, Impact Film and TV looks back at some of his greatest classics… Beetlejuice This film is weird; ask someone why they like this film and they might struggle to say as it is cinematic Marmite. It has quite a...
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Romance + disability + convention = cloyingly saccharine + Emilia Clarke = heart-warmingly sweet. That’s the formula upon which Me Before You is built. Mawkishly and expectedly drowning out its audience with old-fashioned sentimentality, but doing it with Emilia Clarke at your service, is the best way of reversing that...
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Top Gear is back with new hosts, a new track and the highest expectations of any revamped show ever! Let’s start with the titles. The overall style and theme song remained the same, but incorporated more cars and fewer explosions. This indicated a series closer to the original 70/80’s Top...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones and Beth Rowland discuss the place of Holocaust dramas in modern society and cinema, and whether the lessons of history can still be borne through an entertainment form. Yes Son Of Saul is a 2015 Grand-Prix winning Holocaust drama from director László Nemes. It is one of most...
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Last night she dreamed she was pregnant. She dreamed she was giving birth. The doctors handed her the new-born in a blanket. It was her dog. A Rat Terrier, specifically. But of course for the dog to come out, the doctors had needed to get the dog in first....