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In Cinemas Iain MacLeod In Cinemas Iain MacLeod

THE MONKEY

Osgood Perkins follows the smash success of LONGLEGS with something completely different; a horror comedy involving a toy monkey. Laughs and gore collide in spectacular fashion in one of the darkest comedies in a long time.


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In Cinemas Iain MacLeod In Cinemas Iain MacLeod

HEART EYES

Blood is spilled on Valentine’s Day once more as a mismatched couple find love and fight for their lives as a masked slasher hunts them across town in bloody fashion. Read Iain MacLeod’s review to see if he was won over or left cold by Josh Ruben’s slasher/rom-com mix-up.


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COMPANION

COMPANION - Get ready for your new favourite anti-rom-com/sci-fi  as Sophie Thatcher faces some uncomfortable truths about her seemingly perfect relationship with Jack Quaid. Iain MacLeod reviews Drew Hancock’s directorial debut that expertly exposes harsh truths in entertaining and bloody fashion.


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In Cinemas Kim Coutts In Cinemas Kim Coutts

THE FRONT ROOM

Brandy Norwood returns to the big screen in Sam and Max Eggers' directorial debut about an old racist woman with dark intentions for her unborn grandchild.



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In Cinemas Kim Coutts In Cinemas Kim Coutts

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

So…a BEETLEJUICE sequel? No rational person would want it to be terrible or treat its arrival with the dread you would normally reserve after a 12 week scan confirms your partner to be pregnant with the Antichrist. Great news: as soon as the monochrome Warner Bros. logo has faded away and the unmistakeable Danny Elfman title theme kicks in, you can relax: we’re in safe hands.


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Kim Coutts Kim Coutts

TIL DEATH DO US PART

Although credited to screenwriters Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor, you could be forgiven for thinking TIL DEATH DO US PART might be an A.I.-generated hybrid designed to merge all our favourite moments and characters from JOHN WICK, TRUE ROMANCE, READY OR NOT and KILL BILL. If this is the case, The Machines have failed to carry over the wit, excitement, invention, and humanity. Early on, a poor rip-off of Hans Zimmer’s glorious “You’re So Cool” theme from TRUE ROMANCE (itself an adaptation of a Carl Orff piece already appropriated by BADLANDS) makes you realise just how tediously third hand all of this is.


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BABY ASSASSIN’S 2 BABIES

For those of you who may have missed the first instalment of the Baby Assassin's franchise, you may or may not be disappointed to discover that these films do not in fact feature infants who are highly skilled in the art of death but two young women, Chisato and Mahiro, fresh out of high school who despite their highly lethal line of work are more preoccupied with elaborate desserts and holding down a series of low paying day jobs to pay the rent for the day-glo coloured apartment they are forced to share by the Assassin’s Guild.

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