Tag Archives: Fantasy

Wicked: For Good (2025) Review

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Fantasy, Jeff Goldblum, Jon M Chu, L Frank Baum, Musical, The Wizard of Oz, Wicked, Wicked: For Good | Leave a comment

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Review

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Dean DeBlois, DreamWorks, Fantasy, Gerard Butler, How to Train Your Dragon, Mason Thames, Nick Frost, Nico Parker | Leave a comment

Cinderella (1950) 75th Anniversary Review

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Animation, Cinderella, Clyde Geronimi, Disney, Eleanor Audley, Family Film, Fantasy, Hamilton Luske, Irene Woods, Verna Felton, Wilfred Jackson | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Wicked (2024)

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Sam S-P

Did the long-awaited big screen version of the iconic musical WICKED need to be a two-part epic? Possibly not, but this first part does make you intrigued about how everything will be wrapped up at the end of 2025. Years … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Fantasy, Jeff Goldblum, John M Chu, Musical, The Wizard of Oz, Wicked | Leave a comment

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) Review

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Sam S-P

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-2024-review/ SSP

Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine | Tagged Animation, Brian Cox, Fantasy, Gaia Wise, Kenji Kamiyama, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Orion and the Dark (2024)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Sam S-P

Charlie Kaufman’s latest exploration of existential dread is, unexpectedly, a kids’ animation from Dreamworks and director Sean Charmatz. Highly neurotic eleven-year-old Orion (Jacob Tremblay) is swept off on an adventure by the anthropomorphic personifications of night, lead by Dark (Paul … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Animation, Charlie Kaufman, DreamWorks, Family Film, Fantasy, Jacob Tremblay, Netflix, Orion and the Dark, Paul Walter Hauser, Sean Charmatz | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: All of Us Strangers (2023)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Sam S-P

Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with one of the most beautiful shots I have ever seen and doesn’t let up from there. Lonely writer Adam (Andrew Scott) living in a near-deserted tower block in London simultaneously begins a … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh, Andrew Scott, Drama, Fantasy, Paul Mescal, Romance | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Beau is Afraid (2023)

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Sam S-P

Thanks to Ari for letting us sit in on his bewildering self-therapy. BEAU IS AFRAID is best described as an epic anxiety horror. It could certainly be considered funny, but funny-peculiar. Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is a man-child still under the … Continue reading →