Tag: 2024
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A successful adaptation of a musical into a film is no mean feat. In my opinion, it is quite the risk to attempt to capture the magic that a theatre show exudes and make it into a blockbuster without losing the energy of the performances or using really bad CGI (the 2019 Cats film speaks…
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Based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 young adult novel, Netflix’s adaptation of Uglies is relatively simple. In a dystopian future three hundred years from now, the government funds everything, including the mandated extreme cosmetic surgery everyone receives at the age of 16, transforming them from an ‘Ugly’ into a ‘Pretty’. Both the book and the film…
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Writer Ben reviews Richard Mundy’s sci-fi horror which featured at the Southampton International Film Festival.