This is such a brilliant film, great fun with a cast of incredible actresses just bumbling their way to the Superbowl. It’s emotional from the start and only gets more and more so as layers are revealed. You wouldn’t expect Tom Brady to be much of an actor, but he gets away with it, and you can tell he means it when he does his little speech.

This is pretty much exactly what you think it’s going to be - bright and colourful and a huge cast of voice actors and their best efforts at bringing to life these well-known characters. It’s not brilliant, but it’s entertaining and there’s enough nostalgia to pull at some emotions, so it gets by.

This is a much more serious tone than Chicago, and a much more serious but subtle message. The underlying story of people finding each other and falling in love is great, but it’s those insidious little Nazi moments that really underpin the brooding feeling and that sense of impending doom for everyone. It’s incredibly well done.

I’ve been looking forward to this documentary since I first heard about it and was determined to watch it on the very day it was released, and I’m so glad I did. It’s wonderful. I knew a lot of the facts and plot points having read Fox’s memoirs, but it’s different seeing these moments on screen.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen this before, although I know a lot of the cultural references to it, of course. And I knew all but maybe two of the songs, without actually knowing the context of them in the story. It sort of boggled my mind how watching the movie brought everything together!

There are two parts of this film to review. Firstly, the concept. Who went into the writers room and said ’turns out, Tetris basically brought down the Soviet Union, the Maxwell media empire, and revolutionised the gaming industry… and we can make a film about it with genuine programming and arguing about contracts and some Russian conspiracies.'

The reviews for this movie haven’t been that great, but I was intrigued and the trailer looked good, so why not go for a rom-com spy comedy crossover? I really liked it, actually, it was fun and the actual conspiracy was a pretty good one.

We’re all aware that Marvel has been having a shocker recently, a run of really bad films only saved by a run of really good TV shows. I have to admit, the trailer for this one didn’t make me think it was going to be any better but thankfully it was. Marginally. It was mostly pulled back from the brink by the people - Paul Rudd can carry almost anything, Michael Douglas’ obsession with ants was great, and Kathryn Newton was a great, if a little earnest, addition to the family.

I’ve been rewatching some Simpsons episodes recently, and gone beyond when it was good into the wilderness past series ten, and that made me realise I hadn’t seen the film, even though I’ve always meant to watch it. It was available on Disney+ to stream so I gave it a watch and was pleasantly surprised! It’s really good, funny, satirical, a far cry from the letdown of some of the episodes I’ve been watching. Love the Under the Dome references, and that bit with Bart and the hedge - omg! Definitely worth a watch.

I knew a lot of the songs from this but had never pieced them together in context, I’ve not seen this musical before. It’s slightly quirky, helmed by Louis Armstrong who seems to be a sort of musical narrator at times. But of course the stars of the show are inescapably legendary and that carries the whole thing - even if the plot is a bit thin and contrived at times. Lots of fun, though.

This Lifetime movie seemed to be creating a lot of debate, so I figured it was worth a watch as it was available streaming on Paramount+. It was fine, but it does seem completely unnecessary - it doesn’t really do anything other than show the grim details, there’s no look at why, no talk about the aftermath. In fact, it comes to a slightly bizarre contented ending, which can’t possibly be related to real life. Horrifying story, but an easily missable film.

I’ve been working through a variety of musicals recently and this one popped into my head and just wouldn’t go away. I was reluctant because although I loved this as a kid, when I was thinking back on it, it took on a sort of screechy and long-winded persona in my mind. I couldn’t have been more wrong, it’s so good. The songs are great, there’s a real earnestness about it that isn’t cheesy or eye-rolling. And it’s a happy ending. I still wonder whether Grace just planned the whole thing to get Warbucks to notice her but never mind, it worked.

This is heralded as such a classic movie musical, one of the greatest of all time, and somehow I’d never seen it before. I knew of many of the songs and obviously aware of classic moments like the actual singing and dancing in the rain but none of it had context. It was good, and I liked the story about the transition from silent movies to talking pictures, but I don’t quite know if I’d count it as the greatest! Still, you can’t fault old school tap dancing routines and Gene Kelly is a legend, even if he’s overshadowed by Cosmo in this movie.

I had heard good things about this but couldn’t get to the end of it! It’s a good cast but was there a joke in there at all? Not sure. ‘Classic comedy’ says the description and I was still waiting for that to start halfway through. Talking of which, for a movie about a race, there’s a lot of talking and not a lot of racing. Boo!

This is a charming enough movie but it’s just so in the shadow of Mary Poppins, it was intended as a replacement for if that fell through and it feels like an understudy from start to finish. That said, I do remember some of the songs quite fondly and my word, Angela Lansbury carries the whole thing off in style, so I don’t dislike it. I can’t quite believe how little recollection I had with regards to it being about the war… that’s the driving point of the whole plot!

This is a musical I’ve watched so many times before but not for a long while now. I’d forgotten some of the finer details of the movie but the rhythms of it are still so clear to me. I knew as well going into this that I’d spot some things that younger me didn’t realise which is always fun.

I just finished reading the Bono memoir Surrender and it felt like exactly the right time to invest in this Disney original documentary. It’s really good. It takes a while to get going and you have to sort of get on board with the fact there isn’t a huge point to this documentary. There’s no over-arching theme. It’s just Dave Letterman bumbling into a city for the first time, getting shown around by amazingly creative musicians, and learning more about where U2 have come from, where they think they are and where they might be going next.

There’s something to this movie, it’s great to see confident kids running around knowing so much about computers and nerds ruling the roost. But it just doesn’t quite work. In trying to make hacking and typing on a computer interesting visually, they’ve gone just a bit over the top so it was eye-rolling instead of eye-popping.

The trouble with not watching many films is that it puts pressure on the ones you do watch to be good - I was expecting this to be pretty bad, considering it’s a clear rip-off of Big and the trailer looked fun in a messy way. It was actually brilliant! Yes, there is the obvious Big comparison, although this one is about the choices you make rather than just the fact that being an adult sucks.

We had two non-starters going into this film so it was really just a relief to find something that sustained our attention and was watchable to the end. It’s a nice family comedy, with a great trio of Ben, Allison and Kristen, all being slightly messy adults that have stuff to work through. It’s not hugely funny but has its moments, it’s not totally moving but there are definitely heartwarming scenes… it’s just a sort of middle-of-the-road decent watch, no strong opinions one way or the other.