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Artemis Fowl II (i.e. the second) is a 12-year-old Irish genius descended from a long line of criminal masterminds. He is said to have the highest IQ in Europe (200).  He isn’t as impressive physically, and to balance this out he is trained in numerous martial arts by Domovoi Butler, his trusted servant and bodyguard. Artemis has dark, “raven-coloured” hair, and deep blue eyes like his...

Hollywood, 1969.  Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), the former television star from the 1950s Western series Bounty Law is looking to turn around his fading career. He is getting parts in television shows, but only as the guest-star heavy. Much of his time is spent hanging out with his buddy, former stunt double, driver and personal assistant, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Dalton lives on Cielo Drive ne...

The Nun is the third movie in the Conjuring universe and is largely being touted as the “darkest chapter” out of all them all by the studio. So does it live up to the hype? The latest instalment focuses on the origins of Valak, the fantastically creepy demonic nun who was introduced to audiences in Conjuring 2. Valak promptly became a beloved horror figure so it was inevitable that she would get h...

Ronnie (short for Veronica) and her boyfriend Jeff are a thirty-something couple who live together in Adelaide. Jeff teaches part-time and Ronnie runs a boutique foodie restaurant that is suffering an economic down-turn. In fact, her whole life feels on a downward slide, as Ronnie deals with money problems and a mother who has Alzheimer’s Disease. And then, out of the blue, she gets a call from an...

Sometimes an idea arrives at the correct cultural moment and the time is ripe for it to impress and capture an audience. And sometimes an idea is long past its use-by date. Such is the case with THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS. We are asked to imagine a world where puppets are real independent beings, living side-by-side with humans and subject to the same ambitions, fears, lusts and flaws that we are. In t...

Jim (Damian Hill) is up against it. He owes money to a loan shark and payment is due. On this particular day, he has his courier job to do, but he has also agreed to look after his son Alex (Ty Perham). There are particular rules that prevent him from driving around the parcels and Alex in the company van, so he is forced to use his own vehicle, a beautifully preserved classic Ford Fairlane.  From...

According to the Internet, the United States used to have something called the Environmental Protection Agency and when they did tests on new vehicles to establish how much fuel those vehicles would use in city and highway driving, the EPA would employ the disclaimer “Your Mileage May Vary”. This phrase and its initialism, YMMV, has come to us through that very same Internet and it is a short-cut ...

London, somewhere in the mid-1950s. Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a fashion designer to high society and European royalty. His is the creative part of the House of Woodcock, while his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) manages the financial and operational side of the business. The siblings are in their 50s and are set in their ways. The business is in the centre of their life. No other elem...

Molly’s Game is based on the memoir Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom. The story takes a close-up view of a world that is well beyond most of us. However, when we first see Bloom, she is training to be a skier. Her first coach is her father (Kevin Costner) an...

In 1973, J. Paul Getty III, the grandson of billionaire oil magnate J.Paul Getty, was kidnapped from a piazza in Rome. He was 16 years old. A ransom demand was sent to young Getty’s mother, Gail Harris. It demanded $17 million; the idea being that the money would come from the grandfather. Several factors complicated this from happening. Harris was estranged from the Getty family. Her son had ofte...