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  • Alex B Cann weekly film blog - 28th November

    Alex reviews the week's big new release, Wicked, which is taking cinemas by storm & had a better opening weekend at the Box Office than Paddington in Peru or Gladiator 2.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 31st October

    With it being Halloween week, it's worth mentioning that horror has had a rather lucrative year at the cinema, with movies such as The Substance, Terrifier 3 and Smile 2 all delighting audiences and smashing their budgets at the box office.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 17th October

    There's often a debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. In my book, it absolutely is. It contains four Christmas songs in the soundtrack, the action takes place at a Christmas Eve office party, and both the director and scriptwriter say it is a festive movie.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 10th October

    I find myself at odds with most reviews I've read of Joker: Folie a Deux, as I thoroughly enjoyed it. As the latest edition of The Rest Is Entertainment points out, musicals are very difficult to market. Wonka and Mean Girls are recent examples of musicals where it was pretty well concealed in the trailers, until you went to see them and realised everyone was, er, singing.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 3rd October

    It's almost impossible to review The Substance without spoilers, but I'll try. It's grisly, bone-crunching, shockingly gory stuff, but what a performance from Demi Moore. This is possibly the most bananas movie I've ever seen, and Moore's finest hour in my book.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 26th September

    It's a rarity, but a trio of films were all released last Friday that I couldn't wait to see. I've managed two of them this week, and both are outstanding.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 19th September

    Starting this week with my film of the month for September. Strange Darling is grisly and twisty as hell The best review I've seen comes from rapper Kid Cudi, who wrote: "Movies like this come every so often. As a fan of horror, I've never been this thrown by a horror movie before. I went in thinking one thing, and left knowing another". The difficulty in reviewing this movie is that it's definitely best enjoyed without spoilers. It's gory, tense, and nerve shredding.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 12th September

    I decided to catch up on the original Beetlejuice last week, and realised I'd somehow never seen it! A shocking omission, I confess, but I really enjoyed the 1988 classic. You can find it on Amazon Prime Video.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 5th September

    Aliens and artificial intelligence are on the menu this week. To our first offering, and AfrAId has a title as dodgy as the end product, unfortunately. I would like to commend whoeever put the trailer together, though, as it actually made it look enticing.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 29th August

    Would you hop on a plane and fly to a tropical paradise with someone you'd just met at a cocktail party? Blink Twice is best viewed not knowing much about the plot, and for once the trailer didn't give away all the best bits, as so often seems to happen nowadays.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 22nd August

    First this week, a word about cinema etiquette. Our enjoyment of the 15th anniversary 3D screening of Coraline this week was lessened by a group of goons sitting behind us. They spent most of the movie talking, kicking our seats, and rustling their bags of sweets as loudly as humanly possible. Ridiculous.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 15th August

    I often go to the cinema at strange times, so it was a surprise to see a packed screen for Twisters on Tuesday night. Mrs C gave it five stars, and I don't disagree with that. It stood up to a second viewing very well. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell spark off each other well.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 8th August

    By the time you read this, I will definitely have watched Deadpool, and promise a verdict next week. Sorry! In the meantime, I have two thoroughly enjoyable movies to bring to you this week.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 1st August

    Confession time...I haven't been to the cinema this week. I did breathe a sigh of relief though when Cineworld revealed a much smaller list of closures than Sky News had reported, although I obviously feel for the six teams who are affected by their announcement.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 25th July

    The original Twister starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as intrepid storm chasers, and if you forgive the pun, it took the box office by storm back in 1996.The new incarnation stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos.

  • Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 18th July

    A hush descended over the cinema car park on Sunday evening. As I parked up and headed for some popcorn, the only sound was a wisp of wind blowing a crisp packet around, and I quickly realised I was alone. Was I in a zombie movie? Had I arrived during the night in error?

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 9th July

    This week's offerings feature one of the best films I've seen in years, and one of the worst I've ever sat through. There's the bad - In A Violent Nature and the surprisgly good -in A Quiet Place

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 2nd July

    If you watch one film this week, I'd recommend I Am : Celine Dion, which was released on Amazon Prime Video in late June. It's a searingly honest look at the superstar's battle with Stiff Person Syndrome, which is so rare it only affects one in a million people.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 25th June

    It's a bit of a quiet week for big news releases, but I've managed to squeeze a few films in. They are all weirdly similiar! Arcadian is set in the near future, and we see a decimated, scorched Earth where only a handful of humans have managed to survive a major event.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 19th June

    I've become a lot bolder with spiders these days. I found a pretty massive one in Studio 3 at Tameside Radio the other week, and set it free using a glass and a copy of this newspaper. My younger brother Nik is absolutely terrified of them, and I doubt he'll have watched this film.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 11th June

    Family-sized lasagne is loved by cuddly indoor cat Garfield, but he's not a fan of Mondays. Fair enough, although it seems he has a pretty pampered life living with Jon, who finds him wandering the rainy streets as he dines alone in his favourite Italian restaurant.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 4th June

    Flaming June is here, and there are some cracking new releases coming to the big screen in the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to A Quiet Place : Day One, which is directed by Michael Sarnoski, previously responsible for the excellent Nicolas Cage film Pig.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 9th April

    The first of two films based on that Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew hit Netfllix this week, and Scoop was a five star treat in my book. Based on three chapters of a book by producer Sam McAlister, who arranged te interview at Buckingham Palace and has since said it was "hard to keep a poker face" while he was speakin

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 2nd April

    In a strange twist of fate, I've written in my other column this week about the troubles facing the Royal Mail in hitting delivery targets and turning a profit, as parcels take over and letters fade into the background. In Wicked Little Letters, we revisit a largely true story from the 1920s.

  • Alex Cann's Weekly Film Blog - 26th March

    If you're a John Wick fan, there will inevitably be comparisons with pulpy new action film Monkey Man, which is out this weekend. Armed with little more than a monkey mask and a shedload of grit and determination, Dev Patel's Kid won't rest until the men who took everything from him get what's coming to them.

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