When all you’ve ever known is hatred and darkness, anything that isn’t that feels like love, feels like light. On most every street in most every town up and down this country you will find people who are hurting, who are suffering, who are fighting just to get from daybreak to day’s end, who will brave a winter’s chill and remain unflinching for the cold they already carry with them. Behind the smile you receive that makes your day manageable…
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical 2022
I’m nearly 25 years old. I’ve already seen this once before. I’ve read the book more times than I’ve seen my own father, watched Danny DeVito’s film more times than I’ve heard my mother say she loves me. And here I am, crying with an immovable rock lodged in my throat in the cinema, once again desperately wishing I could crawl inside this story and escape the pain and hurt of years of begging for a love and a recognition…
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Beauty and the Beast 1991
No one plots like Gaston
Takes cheap shots like Gaston
Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like GastonHad what can only be described as an epiphanic experience watching Beauty & The Beast with my daughter and fiancée at the cinema this morning. I already knew this was a shining star of Disney’s vaunted Renaissance Era, and I already knew the music is as immortal as the tale it helps to tell is timeless. I knew that Belle is the best of…
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Christopher Robin 2018
There’s gotta be an obscure German word for the absolute inability to watch any Winnie The Pooh film without having an emotional breakdown and an existential crisis. “We think about you every day.” Oh, bother!
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No Time to Die 2021
James Bond: We have all the time in the world.
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No Time To Die is a beautiful swansong for Daniel Craig’s James Bond, a film that really does feel like the culmination of all that came before it. Boasting the style and swagger of Casino Royale (which is nodded to in the obligatory pre-credit chase thanks to a heavily dialled up parkour segment - now with added bikes), the brutal viscera of QoS (there’s some phenomenal sound…
