• Films,  Review

    Secret Unlimited Screening 12 – Crawl

    I’m not sure if you know the drill about what happens at a Cineworld Unlimited Secret Screening.  Those of us who have unlimited passes can book screenings for unreleased films.  Most of which are announced and I try and get to as many of them as possible as usually, the films are fine; there is the odd dud but its a great way to get me to see something outside of my usual milieux. The secret screenings are mostly the same.  It’s just you don’t know what you will end up seeing. This can work to your advantage or not. Generally, I like the surprise – but it helps to…

  • Films,  Review

    The Lion King 2019

    One of my favourite Disney movies is the Lion King. I watched the original to death as a teenager and the music – all of the music – just feels wonderful. When I heard they were doing a ‘live action’ remake I was dubious. For a start its not live action its naturalistic CGI and that is not quite the same thing at all. But the casting sounded amazing, Donald Glover, Queen Bey, Jon Oliver as Zazu I was suddenly on board. The trailer when it was released pretty much gave me shivers.  It was a shot for shot remake of the animated and then all worries were set aside,…