Peter Rabbit is out now on all home formats, as well as the digital one you can carry about with it, and if there’s one thing I’ve struggled to understand for quite some time, it’s the appeal of James Corden. I’ve gone into the whys and wherefores of that many times before, so I won’t […]
Fanged Up is a new British horror comedy which I was invited to watch, in the knowledge that it stars Daniel O’Reilly, the infamous man behind Dapper Laughs. This is the sort of invitation which would send most people running for the hills, but while lad culture was once a ‘thing’, and his style of […]
Escape Plan 2: Hades follows on from the 2013’s original movie which was hit and miss, but still watchable. Arnie is nowhere to be found, but Sylvester Stallone is back as prison escapologist Ray Breslin, in a sequel which may have felt like a great idea until it turned out to be straight-to-DVD fare. Well, […]
Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema is a new five-part BBC4 series about the movie critic’s first love, which starts with romantic comedies, and it doesn’t take long before Mr Kermode breaks films down a bit more than the rest of us would, for example, in terms of showing how Splash perfectly fits the three-act structure […]
The Piano is a film I first tried watch on video when it was first released, but I gave up halfway through as I found it too dull. So, why try to watch it again 25 years on? Because as times change, tastes change, too, and I’ve enjoyed a number of films these past few […]
New Blu-ray and DVD releases July 23rd 2018 are as follows:
Peter Rabbit is out now on all home formats, as well as the digital one you can carry about with it, and if there’s one thing I’ve struggled to understand for quite some time, it’s the appeal of James Corden. I’ve gone into the whys and wherefores of that many times before, so I won’t bore you with it again.
So, you’re thinking – “Well, maybe the film just turned up unannounced on your doorstep?”
Fanged Up is a new British horror comedy which I was invited to watch, in the knowledge that it stars Daniel O’Reilly, the infamous man behind Dapper Laughs. This is the sort of invitation which would send most people running for the hills, but while lad culture was once a ‘thing’, and his style of videos (on Twitter’s now-defunct service, Vine), where he would allegedly slander women – and that these were popular, was once a ‘thing’, the time came that he was called out on it.
He then appeared on Newsnight and showed a lot of contrition, and has had to reinvent himself, and good on him, too. He said he was taking the mickey out of how certain men think, so it’s a similar idea to Alf Garnett, who was a pastiche of certain old men in the UK back in the ’60s-80s.
Shazam centres around 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who once again finds himself in a new foster-family until the day comes when the troubled child is confronted by an ancient wizard (Djimon Hounsou), who gives him the power to transform into an older, godlike superhero upon uttering the words “Shazam!”
Billy and his new foster-brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) must learn how to use his new powers to stop the villain Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong – Grimsby).
Aquaman was first shown to us recently onscreen with Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry, who learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
I did enjoy Justice League – whereas most people didn’t, but I don’t particularly care for an Aquaman origins movie.
In the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e July 26th 2018, the omnipresent Drake jumps from No.4 to No.1 with In My Feelings, and this is not my sort of music whatsoever.
As such, Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds drop from No.1 with Three Lions, but since the sailed all the way down to No.97, this is actually the biggest chart drop from the top slot in history!
The Top 10 singles are as follows:
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is bringing back the big G after 2014’s disappointing recent movie.
On Wednesday, there was a Comic-Con Sneak Peak, and now there’s a full trailer!
Check out the trailer below:
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is coming to UK cinemas on November 16th 2018 and today, the Comic-Con Trailer has been revealed, and I’m really looking forward to this!
Also available is the teaser cast image which you can also see below, along with the new trailer:
Tanyalee Davis (above), a fantastic comedian from Canada, said she was left humilated and shamed by Great Western Railways on Sunday after the following horrendous encounter on one of their trains, and another screw-up has happened, but this time it’s not GWR, but LNER, aka the London and North Eastern Railway!
Yesterday, Tanyalee was due on stage, but was delayed for the following reason at York station:
James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, has been fired… Gunn? Fired? No, you shut up!
Anyway, Disney have kicked him out of directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, which was expected to come out in April 2020, so three years on from Vol.2, and six years on from Vol.1, but a website called The Daily Caller found a load of dodgy tweets which he posted back in 2008 and 2009, and Disney weren’t happy.
