The latest live-action remake to come out of Disney’s pipeline is here and this time it’s Aladdin. Aladdin hasn’t had the smoothest ride to the big screen with casting issues, accusations of colourism and the internet’s reaction to Will Smith as Genie at several points before the film’s release. While this version is unlikely to replace the 1992 animated film as people’s preferred version of the Aladdin story, it is a bit of fun and a solid modernisation of the story.
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So here we are, one year later, with Avengers: Endgame. The 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a project the likes of which we have never seen before, primarily due to it not only having to deal with the events of Infinity War but also wrapping up the “Infinity Saga” that has taken place over the past 11 years. So this kind of serves as the world’s most expensive and long season finale.
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Shazam is a character with a long lineage in comics and an similarly long list of aliases and legal issues. The Superman-like hero debuted in 1940 with the name Captain Marvel, which of course clashed with the Marvel hero of the same name. Perhaps it is thus fitting that this film releases within just months of the Marvel film.
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Time for another eclectic collection of songs put together by me, Ashley Hobley, for your listening pleasure. Enjoy
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Nobody was expecting great things from The Lego Movie when it was greenlit back in 2011 but when it was released in 2014, it shocked the world with its smarts, humour, heart and beautiful animation. Five years later and we now have a sequel that is just as clever, funny, stunning to look and emotional but it is missing the surprise and the freshness of the original which isn’t helped by being the fourth film in the Lego Movie franchise (following 2017’s The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie).
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Wayne is dark, violent, funny and at times crazy but also delivers sweet and heartfelt moments.
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How To Train Your Dragon is one of the best cinema experiences I have been fortunate to enough to have had. Flying through the skies with Toothless for the first time was a joyous moment that brought a wide grin to my face. There was just a certain magic to that film and How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is proof that that magic is very difficult to recapture.
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2018 has been a spectacular year for Spider-Man. He played a important role in Avengers: Infinity War back in April before the PS4 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man video game was released in September. Now we have the new animated film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, another amazing addition to the Spider-Man catalog.
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Anna and the Apocalypse calls itself a “Christmas Zombie Musical”, a combination I didn’t know I wanted until I did a Reacts video for the trailer with Dylan. While its pitch might get people to watch it, the film is good enough to make sure people won’t think of it as just a gimmick movie.
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