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I think I've stated at least a couple of times on this blog that I think the Toy Story trilogy is one of the finest trilogies I have ever seen. It works perfectly as a three film arc and I have been very against the idea of any additions to that franchise. But money makes the world go round and Disney is Disney and here we are, 9 years after the last Toy Story, 24 years after the first Toy Story, with a fourth film. Like Incredibles 2 last year, this isn't actually set a relative amount of time after the third film but instead set what seems like only a summer later. Bonnie, the new kid, goes to Kindergarten for the first time and has made a new toy called Forky (oh sweet Forky). Forky believes he belongs in the trash and will do anything to get there, including jump out of a window on a road trip. This in turn leads Woody to jump out and try and find him, which leads to a reunion with Bo Peep, missing in action since the second film. The story focusses around the town Bonn...

Why I'm doing this review in the middle of June may seem like a bit of a mystery to you. We're four months gone since Valentine's Day, that's the only time to talk about love in cinema, right? Well, not for me. Not only are we in a week when I do not want to see the new Men in Black film, we're also at the time of year when the Before trilogy are set, as well as being a week since I re-watched those films. It's made me realise that while I have little interest in typically romantic genres like rom-coms, musicals or period dramas, romance on film can be one of my very favourite films. Quick rule check, I'm prioritising films where romance is the core push of the film, meaning that I have sadly cut films like La La Land and Vertigo. So as I sit here, depressingly alone as always, lit by the screen of my laptop, let's countdown the best films that depict romance, be it soaringly positive or crushingly negative. 7. If Beale Street Could Talk First o...

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the newest (and probably last) X-Men film from Fox which, don't worry, is more to do with being bought by Disney than the fact that it's pretty bad. The plot is familiar to anyone unfortunate enough to have seen The Last Stand, as it's about Jean Grey becoming "The Phoenix" again. She gets some super duper powers from a solar flare (powers which, according to the last film, she's had all along but Fox don't want you to remember that) and becomes a powerful and maybe sinister force, eventually being manipulated by some evil alien lady. The rest of the X-Men don't like this because they are good guys and they want their hot redhead back because... I think just because they're the good guys and that's what they want, it isn't explained well at all. The entire story is very impressive, in that it is both utterly cookie cutter and still impossible to follow. You've seen it all before but there is an utter lack of m...

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the sequel to that Godzilla film from 2014, as well as a sequel to Kong: Skull Island I guess, although that link is only relevant in setting up the next film. Primarily, this is set five years after that initial attack, where Godzilla's fight ended up completely levelling San Francisco and obviously, a lot of people lost family, which is kinda making America twitchy about the big guy, even though he is clearly on our side, against monsters who are bigger and way more malevolent. The thing is, that's technically the main plot but there's also a lot of side stories about some fairly uninteresting human characters. I'll go more into that later but while it would be odd to make a monster movie about nothing about the monster, it feels foolish to spend way more time with humans (even if that worked out solidly for the 2014 Godzilla). As the plot goes on, everything starts to get a little silly, except in my least favourite way, where ev...