I enjoyed it - as a friend said to me the only real problem it has is that MI:Fallout exists, and it can’t help but pale in comparison.
The other thing that struck me is that I really noticed the use of CGI in places (particularly in the finale) - and whilst that’s kind of inevitable, it felt slightly at odds with the…

Having seen the movie I’d say the part is a fairly on the nose portrayal of what I’d describe as a sort of standard middle class British racist. Unlike the reviewer I didn’t believe that I was expected to brush them off disbelievingly, but rather go, “Oh, yes, I know them...” Thompson plays her pretty much as Emma…

Meanwhile, for anyone in the UK seeking a Ghibli stage adaptation, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s version of Totoro is coming back to the Barbican in November. I saw the previous run and it was amazing. I felt about 8 years old just grinning at the Real Life Totoro in front of me...

There’s definitely stuff in that trailer that doesn’t figure in the books, so I’m guessing they’ve added some new stories. I just hope that the reason for moving to the city remains the same as the one in the books (and that more broadly they manage to keep that sense of magic and wonder intact)... 

I’ve seen far too many episodes of Peppa Pig. Both of my children were obsessed with it at various points in their childhood - as one tired, the other gained interest, and so I had something of a Peppa continuum for about 4-5 years.
As a result I started, to develop my own theories about the Peppaverse.
These started as…

A Christmas Panic aired on the BBC a couple of years ago, and is utterly amazing. Sadly however it looks like the American version’s been re-dubbed, so Horse no longer has a (deliberately) bad comedy french accent. This is a shame as the line “They squashed my Christmas Lurg, with my face.” still reduces my daughters…