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2023 Wipe is coming...

It’s almost time for the big end of year wrapup episode of The Journal that a lot of our fans ask us to make. 2023 Wipe is being cooked in the edit…
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First Take: Wonka - the unexpected prequel that gets the Dahl style perfect

SYNOPSIS: With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a ca…
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First Take: Wish - Disney’s 100th ends not with a bang, but with 100+ easter eggs

SYNOPSIS: A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from th…
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First Take: Napoleon - the big historical epic is back, Ridley Scott style

SYNOPSIS: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism…
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First Take: The Marvels - two out of three ain’t bad

Spoiler free as usual . Because Goose would eat me. SYNOPSIS: Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, for…
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First Take: Sumotherhood - allow it, wasteman?

SYNOPSIS: Sequel to 2011 low budget parody of the ‘roadman’ genre Anuvahood, Riko and Kane pick up where they left off and things - inevitably - don’…
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First Take: The Great Escaper - a quiet way for Sir Michael to bow out from cinema

SYNOPSIS: Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France. It’s a true story so bonkers that …
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First Take: The Creator - and they thought there was no demand for intelligent sci-fi…

SYNOPSIS: Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in …
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First Take: The Equalizer 3 - progress over perfection

SYNOPSIS: Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events t…
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First Take: Blue Beetle - how and why did film Twitter write it off that early?

SYNOPSIS: An alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the recent college graduate with a suit of armor that’s capable of …
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First Take Classics: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - re-enter a world of pure imagination

SYNOPSIS: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate fact…
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First Takes at LYIFF: The Entrepot - Cantonese cinema takes over the Lowther Pavilion

SYNOPSIS: In the midst of a changing Hong Kong following political unrest and the Covid pandemic, three thematically linked shorts weave together t…
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Short Takes at LYIFF: The North has a new film festival, and it’s awesome

This weekend indie cinema got its rightful moment in the spotlight, as the Lytham International Film Festival took over the iconic Lowther Pavilio…
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First Take: Haunted Mansion - Disney’s identity crisis continues, and it ain’t great

SYNOPSIS: A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discoveri…
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First Take: Scrapper - Screen Unseen was built for films like this

SYNOPSIS: Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up …
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First Take: Gran Turismo - apparently video games CAN make dreams come true

SYNOPSIS: Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car drive…
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First Take: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - mean, green but so lovable

SYNOPSIS: The film follows the Turtle brothers as they work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants. Who would’ve thoug…
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First Take: Barbie - the lighter film of that so-called ‘Barbenheimer’ movement

SYNOPSIS: Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence. It’s the film that spawned millions of memes since that firs…
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First Take: Oppenheimer - Nolan has become death, the destroyer of worlds

SYNOPSIS: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. Spoiler free as usual . Because In …
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First Take: Asteroid City - a little bit of everything from Mr Anderson

SYNOPSIS: Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Aste…
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First Take: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - there’s another maverick-like success coming

SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Spoiler free as usual .  This message wil…
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First Take: Joy Ride - The Hangover meets Girls Trip with some extra Rogen spice

SYNOPSIS: Follows four Chinese-American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel …
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First Take: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - the summer holiday box office battle starts here

SYNOPSIS: A shy adolescent learns that she comes from a fabled royal family of legendary sea krakens and that her destiny lies in the depths of the…
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First Take: Greatest Days - take that back to the writers’ room and don’t do it like this

SYNOPSIS: A feature adaptation of the ‘The Band’ musical, featuring the songs of Take That. Well, of all the ideas for films, Amazon had to plough som…
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