TV Review: The Mandalorian “Chapter 2”

This episode is spoiler free. The Mandalorian's second episode, although rather short, continues to confirm that this series is going to be something rather special. I can't go in to a lot of detail without spoiling plot elements, which I'm not going to do, as I appreciate a lot of the reading audience may not …

Film Review: Toy Story 4

Mild spoilers ahead, but major plot points will not be discussed.   It's the film that many of us didn't think was necessary. 2010's Toy Story 3 had a perfect, heartbreaking ending that wrapped everything up nicely, surely a fourth film would just be milking it and could never live up to what had come before? Wrong. Toy …

Film Review: Dumbo

There's not a great deal to say about Tim Burton's reimagining of the 1941 Disney classic. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's perfectly fine. It differs quite a bit from the original animated film, although a lot of the story beats remain the same. There is a much larger focus on human characters rather than Dumbo …

Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns

After 54 years, Mary Poppins has returned to our screens. It's weird when you put it like that, the original film came out before my parents were born, and here I am watching a new instalment. Mary Poppins Returns is set around three decades after the first film and revisits the Banks children, who have fallen …