Octavia Spencer

Snowpiercer (2013)

Snowpiercer (2013)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 19, 2014Train Containing the Last Survivors of Humanity
One of the most original science-fiction films of recent years. Set aboard a train where the last survivors of humanity circle a frozen globe, this is less an action film than something like Runaway Train turned into a unique conceptual breakthrough story, all rent through with a fierce parable about social revolution
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Zootopia (2016)

Zootopia (2016)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 12, 2016Disney Animation/World of Talking Animals
A really good Disney animated film set in a world that imagines what might happen if animals lived in cities, this is an ingenious reworking of the talking animals premise that overflows with visual ingenuity and warm humour
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The Shack (2017)

The Shack (2017)
Rating: ★
May 29, 2017Man Invited to a Meeting with God
This comes with a fantastic conceptual hook "Man is invited to a meeting with God at a hut in the woods". Alas, what we get is no more than a work of faith-based cinema that drowns in its feelgood Christianity Lite sentiments and appeal to Middle American wholesomeness
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The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 13, 2018Romance with an Amphibian Man
Guillermo Del Toro makes monster movies with sympathy for the monster. This is his take onThe Creature from the Black Lagoon where the romance between creature and heroine is brought out to centre stage
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Dolittle (2020)

Dolittle (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 29, 2020Doctor That Can Speak to Animals
This revival of the classic children's character who can speak to animals took a critical battering but I kind of liked it. It has a completely madcap slapstick tone and more crucially returns to the stories and banishes any bad memory of Eddie Murphy
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Onward (2020)

Onward (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 5, 2020Pixar Animation/Alternate Present Inhabited by Magic Creatures
The 22nd animated film from Pixar and also the least successful (being released only a week before theatrical chains closing down due to Coronavirus). This has an appealingly quirky and original concept not unakin to Bright that takes place in an alternate reality where magic creatures live in a world akin to our own
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