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Pinocchio Review

Many of us know the character of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy, from the 1940 award-winning Disney animation. Unlike other Disney animated features such as SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) or CINDERELLA (1950) the story wasn’t based on a folk tale adapted by the Brothers Grimm. Pinocchio comes from an 1883 children’s book by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. The origin...

Guns Akimbo Review

GUNS AKIMBO launches into the action from its very first frame. Our narrator is Miles (Daniel Radcliffe) a put-upon video game developer who hates his job; he is under the thumb working on a money-spinning hypercasual game that he has no respect for. His boss bullies him. His long-term girlfriend Nova (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) has left him (probably). When he’s home alone in his flat, he gets hammere...