This is a Netflix live-action/CGI dramatisation of the Jungle Book story.
3/10
Month: June 2019
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Mary Shelley (2017)
This film looks at the life of the author Mary Shelly from her time as the child of Mary Wollstonecraft, her family’s disapproval of her relationship with the confusing romantic poetry movement at a young age through to her marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley.
4/10
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Bookshop, The (2017)
A young widow moves to a sleepy village and decides to open a bookshop. Some of the locals are suspicious of the books as rthey have never had a bookshop before. She has to try to convince them that books are good.
6/10
Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon star in this spoof comedy about 23 friends who find themselves embroiled in espionage and assassins after one of their ex-boyfriends turned out to be a spy.
5/10
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Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
Nick Offerman plays a single father who runs a record store. His daughter is about to go to college and to pay for this he has to prepare to sell his loss-making business.
5/10
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Tomb Raider (2018)
In this reboot of the series based on a computer game, Lara Croft must battel to discover the truth about her father’s disappearance.
5/10
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Unfinished Business (2015)
In this comedy, a man quits his job due to his bosses treatment and sets up a rival company and they then battle to win.
4/10
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Carlyle’s House London
This small central London National Trust property was the home of the Victorian writing couple of Thomas and Jane Carlyle. You can see where they lived, wrote and entertained other writers such as Charles Dickins.
It is a very small property which includes a small garden but no facilities such as a café and the shop is a table in one of the rooms. It also has no lift meaning those with a problem with stairs to the anything other than the ground floor which other properties such as Dickins House now has.
5/10
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Booksmart (2019)
This coming of age comedy is about 2 girls who spent their time at school trying to make sure they got into a good college but at the end of the year, they discover that those who spent their time partying also managed to get into good colleges. They decide to let their hair down at parties to find out what they were missing.
6/10