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Alex First
Jan 122 min read
The Beekeeper (MA) - 105 minutes
A wild ride. Ultraviolent, over the top nonsense, but – dare I admit it – also a guilty pleasure. Some of the dialogue is horrendous. The...
Alex First
Jan 122 min read
Mean Girls (PG) - 112 minutes
The 2004 cult hit Mean Girls is back as a movie musical, with its star Lindsay Lohan given a small role too and just like the original it...
Alex First
Jan 123 min read
The Holdovers (M) - 133 minutes
Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is an adjust professor of ancient history at an elite boarding institution that dates back to 1797. He is...
Alex First
Jan 52 min read
Night Swim (M) - 98 minutes
A backyard pool all but becomes a living, breathing entity in the horror film Night Swim. The malevolent force does its worst early on...
Alex First
Jan 22 min read
Ferrari (M) - 146 minutes
The power, the glory and the horrors associated with one of the world’s most prestigious marques is on show in Ferrari. The primary focus...
Alex First
Jan 22 min read
The Boys in the Boat (PG) - 123 minutes
On 14th August 1936, the US eights rowing crew did something very special at the Berlin Olympics. This is their story, led by one of...
Alex First
Dec 31, 20232 min read
Dream Scenario (MA) - 102 minutes
Intriguing and bizarre. That best describes Nicholas Cage’s latest offering as a nondescript tenured professor who becomes an overnight...
Alex First
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Next Goal Wins (M) - 104 minutes
Fact: In the 2001 World Cup qualifiers, Australia handed out the worst drubbing in the history of international soccer … to American...
Alex First
Dec 28, 20232 min read
Two Tickets to Greece (M) - 111 minutes
Opposites attract, repel and attract again in the French comedy Two Tickets to Greece. In middle school in 1989, loud and bold teenager...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Poor Things (MA) - 141 minutes
Imagine you have been pieced together … reborn from an unlikely construct, not like you were before. In short, you are an experiment....
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Coup de Chance (PG) - 96 minutes
Alain Aubert and Fanny Moreau went to school together. She was popular and he had a crush on her, but lacked the confidence to say...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Migration (G) - 91 minutes
A fun-filled, animated family adventure, Migration focuses on a family of four wild ducks, also known as mallards. Father Mack (as voiced...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Wish (PG) - 95 minutes
Make a wish and have it instantly satisfied. If only it were that easy. Well, it is not quite that straight forward in the Disney...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Foe (M) - 110 minutes
Just how closely can artificial intelligence clone a human being? Can advancements in technology imbue a robot with emotional...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Trolls Band Together (G) - 91 minutes
The five Troll brothers were once part of a high successful boy band, BroZone, but that came to an inglorious end. Now, all these years...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Napoleon (MA) - 158 minutes
Was he a war monger? The film presents the military leader as such. Under his watch as many as three million died. Was he a jealous and...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
The Old Oak (MA) - 113 minutes
Xenophobia is at the heart of The Old Oak, the 15th collaboration between director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty. The title is the...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Dicks: The Musical (MA) - 86 minutes
As the director of Borat and Bruno, Larry Charles can hardly be accused of playing it safe and so it is again with Dicks: The Musical. It...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Bottoms (MA) - 92 minutes
Low brow comedy, Bottoms comes out on top. PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edibiri) are besties. They are also gay. Neither is popular...
Alex First
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Maestro (M) - 129 minutes
American conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and author Leonard Bernstein (25th August, 1918 to 14thOctober, 1990) was feted the world...
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