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With this review, I'm doing something I've legitimately never done before with a review; I don't know what score I'm giving this film yet. It's not that I don't know how I feel about it, I know the range it falls in but I'm using this review as a way of helping myself properly unpack what I've just seen. The story is of a family who are grieving. The grandmother of the family recently died and everyone is trying to process that. Annie (Toni Collette) compartmentalises by building miniature models yet is still haunted by visions, Peter (Alex Woolf) is working his way through teenage life but afraid of events in the past, Steve (Gabriel Byrne) is trying to hold the family together for Annie's sake but Charlie (Milly Shapiro), the youngest, misses her grandmother after all the attention she always gave her. The thing is, the family realise after this death that the family matriarch was hiding a lot from them and slowly but very definitely, these sec...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the sequel to Jurassic World which was a sequel-soft reboot kinda thing of the beloved Jurassic Park and the quality seems to be a trickle down thing. I know there were two other sequels between Park and World but the World films don't seem to acknowledge them so I won't feel bad for having not seen them. Anyway, Fallen Kingdom follows on three years after World when the island has been abandoned... Again. But wait, this time, the island has a massive volcano on it that is exploding and we have to evacuate all the dinosaurs to get them to the second and third acts of the film. Most of the trailers haven't said more than that so I won't either but it really doesn't get better than the act I just described. It's an okay plot however there is one big twist I didn't see coming. Now, I didn't see this twist coming because I was expecting it to go the exact opposite direction which initially was pretty cool, except it lead...

I may not play as many new video games as I used to but there's still something that draws me back to E3. It used to be the excitement but year after year, that fades and I'm left with pure cynicism. Still, angry cynicism can be fun to read so enjoy me breaking down seven conferences over four days, followed by me breaking down and going back to my mini SNES. Saturday: EA First up was EA, the people's punching bag and after massive controversy with Star Wars Battlefront 2, this was the time for them to bounce back! Except they didn't. They were a deflated ball that collapsed as soon as it hit the ground. It was a poor start when we start with a lot of chat from the host who seems nice enough but is clearly being used as a corporate mouthpiece. Anyway, she gets off stage and we see Battlefield 5, by which I mean we don't actually see much of it, we're just told stuff. Obviously, there's the biggest buzzword of the show with "no lootboxes"...

This year marks 50 years since 2001: A Space Odyssey was first released and as such, it's been re-released in cinemas. I'd actually never seen it before as I was waiting for the "right" time but seeing it on the big screen while I'm studying film at Uni seemed like exactly the right time. Would you know it, it really was. Usually I start with the plot but that's kinda difficult when you're dealing with a film as... Let's say unique as 2001. It's split into four parts, spanning maybe all of time. First there's "The Dawn of Man", then a moon excavation, followed by an expedition to Jupiter before finally reaching the ominously titled "Jupiter, or Beyond the Infinite". Many of the parts aren't clearly linked and they don't transition seamlessly but one thing that links each and every part is the Monolith. It looms over the story the same way it literally looms over the characters and gives a coherence to the plot th...