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  • Brigsby Bear (2017)
    Review preview for Brigsby Bear

    Saturday Night Live regular Mooney, who has a twinkly mischievousness and comic timing reminiscent of a young Gene Wilder, plays James as naive, but never stupid.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
  • A Fuller Life (2013)
    Review preview for A Fuller Life

    Any greater insight into the life of Fuller is most welcome.

    Robert Munro · 3.5 out of 5
    Tribute to maverick American filmmaker Samuel Fuller.
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
    Review preview for Kingsman: The Secret Service

    What begins as an Ian Fleming piss take ends in a Kill Bill blood bath

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Learning to be an officer and a gentleman in Britain's finest privately owned secret service.
  • Laputa: Castle In The Sky (1986)
    Review preview for Laputa: Castle In The Sky

    The film is a visual treat, boasting a well-realised steampunk aesthetic and inventive visual flourishes.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A girl with a mysterious pendant and a young boy team up to unravel the secret of an castle in the sky.
  • Robot Chicken: Season One (2005)
    Review preview for Robot Chicken: Season One

    Catch one episode of this, and you are likely to be left in awe... catch more than on and you will start noticing the grinding repetitions.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Pop-culture savvy sketch show from over the Pond.
  • Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)
    Review preview for Robot Chicken: Star Wars

    The tone may be cheeky and playful, but it is always affectionately so.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Animated sketch show takes you to The Silly Side of George Lucas's sci-fi empire.
  • Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope (1977)
    Review preview for Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope

    Few can deny the great storytelling of Lucas' true first episode of his space-opera.

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    Cult space opera.
  • Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    Review preview for Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back

    It is a spectacular, brilliantly realised piece of moviemaking

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    Superior sequel, to Lucas's space hit.
  • Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return Of The Jedi (1983)
    Review preview for Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return Of The Jedi

    The best-looking and orchestrated space battle ever committed to film.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Finale to the space saga.
  • Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)
    Review preview for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

    This is perhaps less a swansong than a familiar sunset

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.
  • Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens (2015)
    Review preview for Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens

    The Force Awakens manages to stop one thinking about how disbelief is suspended and instead carry one along.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a new threat has emerged and new heroes must arise to save the day.
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
    Review preview for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    It's that old magic again.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Having taken her first steps into the Jedi world, Rey joins Luke Skywalker on an adventure with Leia, Finn and Poe that unlocks mysteries of the Force and secrets of the past.
  • Wizards (1977)
    Review preview for Wizards

    While having so little money may, paradoxically, have liberated Bakshi from studio interference, this freedom allows him to indulge in ideas that are, metaphorically and otherwise, away with the fairies.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A post-Apocalyptic Earth is the setting for wizard warfare.
  • The Wild Robot (2024)
    Review preview for The Wild Robot

    The film mines a lot of clichés but manages to do something a little different with them, blending traditional elements of children’s fiction with a distinctly 21st Century sensibility.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A robot designed to assist humans finds herself stranded on an island populated only by animals.

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