Film Review: Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood follows a faded television actor, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. Following multiple storylines and serving as a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age, Rick also has a famous next-door neighbour, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), as their lives soon become intertwined in the least expected way.

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Film Review: Peter Rabbit

Directed by Will Gluck and based on the stories by Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit follows the rebellious Peter Rabbit (voiced by James Corden) finds himself up against a new young farmer, Mr. Thomas McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson), who is determined to stop Peter and his sisters – Mopsy (Elizabeth Debicki), Flopsy (Margot Robbie), and Cotton-Tail (Daisy Ridley) – from raiding his vegetable patch. With the help of their rabbit loving neighbour, Bea (Rose Byrne), can they win the war against McGregor?

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Film Review: I, Tonya

Based on the true story and directed by Craig Gillespie, I, Tonya follows American figure skater, Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. A competitive ice skater, Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, but her future is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband (Sebastian Stan) intervenes. Now, her legacy has forever been defined by her association with the infamous and ill-conceived 1994 attack on fellow Olympic competitor, Nancy Kerrigan.

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Film Review: Suicide Squad

The third instalment in the DC Extended Universe, following on from this year’s Batman v Superman, and directed by David Ayer, Suicide Squad follows a group of imprisoned supervillains who are recruited by a secret government agency, led by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), to execute a dangerous black ops mission to save the world from an enigmatic, insuperable entity in exchange for leaner sentences. Bringing together some of our favourite DC supervillains – including Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), The Joker (Jared Leto), Enchantress (Cara Delevingne), Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Katana (Karen Fukuhara) – will the mission lead to success or chaos, as the squad realise that they weren’t picked to succeed, but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail?

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