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  UK Cinema Releases Feb '23 Feb 3rd Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG)   1hr 42min (Animation/ Action/ Comedy) Directors: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillen, Florence Pugh The Whale (15)  1hr 57min (Drama) Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink Knock at the Cabin (15)    1hr 40mins (Thriller/ Horror/ Mystery) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Aldridge, Jonathon Groff Feb 10th Women Talking (15) 1hr 44mins (Drama) Director: Sarah Polley Starring: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley Magic Mike's Last Dance (18) 1hr 52mins (Drama) Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek Feb 17th Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (12A) 2hr 5mins (Action/ Adventure/ Comedy) Director: Peyton Reed Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangline Lilly, Jonathon Majors The Son (15) 2hr 3mins (Drama) Director: Florian Zeller Starring: Vanessa Kir...

  Check Out the Latest Trailer for John Wick 4 It's only a few months now, till the much anticipated fourth film in the John Wick franchise gets released. John will take on new and even more dangerous assassins in an attempt to get back into the fraternity that saw him banished for killing on sacred ground. Along with Reeves, this fourth chapter will see John go up against Cain, played by martial arts legend Donnie Yen. Other new faces will be Hiroyuki Sanada, Bill Skarsgard, Rina Sawayama and Scott Adkins. Returning will be Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Lance Reddick. John Wick 4 is due for release in March. 

  Evil Dead Rise, gets a poster and a trailer Evil Dead Rise is the eagerly anticipate fifth film in the franchise, started by Sam Raimi, this one will be directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground). Today the trailer and this poster have been released, along with the synopsis.. A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable. The film stars Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan,  Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies , Nell Fisher, and Mia Challis and is due for release in April 2023.

Kaleidoscope: The Show You Can Watch in Any Order Kaleidoscope has dropped on Netflix is is getting great reviews. This is the series that will change how you watch a TV show. All 8 episodes are colour-coded and can be watched in over 5000 ways, unless you throw the introduction episode and the finale into the mix, then that number goes up to a mind-bending 40,320 ways. Ultimately, you choose. Centred on a bank heist, the series follows Leo Pap, played by Giancarlo Esposito (The Usual Suspects, Do The Right Thing), an ex-con who is putting a team together to pull off the ultimate heist; seventy billion dollars in bonds. Netflix have released the series to everyone in different combinations, so yours will not be the same as mine. People are already posting their methods to cater for certain narratives. I have started with 'Yellow' which is the introduction episode, then the Mystery method before finishing with the heist, 'White'. If you want to watch it in chronological ...

It has been a truly remarkable year for film, with mostly independent and original ideas getting released. It also saw the year i signed up to ODEON Limitless and I saw 55 films on the big screen; some new releases and some older favourites, such as The Thing and Die Hard. I haven't seen everything and a few managed to escape me but I am sure I will add to my own favourites list as time goes on.  So, here is a list of my favourites of the year. I have a top 5 (in order they were released) then the rest of the list, in no discerning order. The Batman (15) (Action/ Crime/ Thriller) Director: Matt Reeves. Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano. How do you go about rebooting a franchise that has seen some wonderful films?  You give the project to Matt Reeves.  Responsible for the American remake of Let the Right One In, Dawn of and War for the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield. His vision was darker than anything we'd seen in live-a...