Category: Coming of age
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The Plague Review: Lord of the pools
THE PLAGUE (2025) Ah to be young. When the clamour for social acceptance was ever present, tricky and treacherous, and all while we were at our most vulnerable. For the lucky, sheltered, naive or unrepentant, this time in one’s life is forgettable, and maybe even looked back upon with bliss. Yet, for a lot of…
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28 Years Later Review: Maul things come
28 YEARS LATER (2025) I’m not a fan of this franchise. I said it. Mind you it was love at first sight for Cillian Murphy 28 years ago and I liked the shots taken at its cowardly protagonist (Robert Carlyle, also love) in 28 Weeks Later (2007). It’s just that I find the intermittent and…
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Karate Kid: Legends Review: It’s kicks are for kids
KARATE KID: LEGENDS (2025) No movie can be everything for everyone. For example, my mother never saw what all the fuss was about when The Karate Kid (1984) was played over and over again at our house as the entire neighbourhood was sweeping the legs and crane kicking each other, hoping against hope we’d happen upon…