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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

There’s action and humour aplenty in the animated adventure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. The film tracks how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to be and how they won favour. Scientist Baxter Stockman’s (the voice of Giancarlo Esposito) lair is raided. He’s killed, but he has already “grown” some terrifying creatures. Among the…

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The Fabelmans – movie review

In the conversation around the greatest living movie director, Steven Spielberg is very much in the mix. From his feature debut with Duel, through his trademark films like E.T. and the Indiana Jones series, to his serious works in Schindler’s List and Lincoln, few directors can match his filmography. Now he takes his audience back…

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An American Pickle – movie review

Talk about getting yourself into a pickle. In the decidedly quirky An American Pickle, Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) certainly does in more ways than one. It is 1919 and Herschel is digging ditches for a living in Eastern Europe in a fictional place called Schlupsk. When he sets eyes upon Sarah (Sarah Snook) it’s love…

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Long Shot – movie review

Based on the hoary chestnut of opposites attracting, Long Shot is a far-fetched comedy that, by and large, works. I dare say it will appeal to many fans of the two leads, Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, because a) they’re in it and b) it is so unlikely a tale, born of the #MeToo generation….

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The Disaster Artist – movie review

If The Room isn’t the worst commercially released movie of all time, I don’t know what is. It’s badly acted and directed, and its script doesn’t make any sense. Against all expectations though, it has developed a cult following, with midnight screenings around the world selling out. Made for a reported US$6 million (of writer, director,…

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