Practical Magic 2: A Whole Lot Of Plastic

Summary: a needless sequel is born

The main issue out of the gate with this film is the characterisation of Sally, the first film had the whole point of her character be her need to embrace what she is. Yet we start the second film right back at square one again.

Kidman and Bullock have good chemistry when they are in harmony together however a lot of the first quarter of the film has them bickering when you can’t hear what anyone is saying and it’s irritating.

Maisie Williams might as well not be in the film as she is left out of most of it with it really being about Joey King, Bullock and Kidman. Once again this seems like an odd structural oversight.

The lifting of the Owen’s family curse as should have happened in the first film is a nice sight to see and the sacrifice needed to make it happen does feel impactful if a little manipulative.

Overall, needles but a good mindless trip to the cinema.

3/5

Pros.

The jokes are better

The tone works

The deaths land

Cons.

The CGI is awful

Bullock is regressed

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Fall 2: A Step Over A Ledge

Summary: one of the girls from the first film’s sister decides she wants to do some climbing.

There was a low budget, Angel Studios feel to this film from it’s lack of effects to its focus on evil drug smugglers, it felt gritty and cheap and not in a good way.

Rather than being back Grace Caroline Curry we have to meet a new host of characters which are nowhere near as likeable, with one the sister of the girl from the first film strongly hating Curry’s character for no real reason at all.

They are trying to set up some sort of Fall shared universe due to the film doing well on Netflix but no one wants this except maybe the crew themselves.

The first one worked the second one is already starting to feel gimmicky.

Overall, a sub part sequel

2/5

Pros.

Some good tense moments

It is well paced

Cons.

It looks cheap

The whole drug smuggling side plot

The tiresome cameo to turn it into an Avengers for mountaineers

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Cinema Issues: The Leftist Outrage At Ali G

So you may have seen that there is a group out there trying to cancel the new Ali G film as it features harmful depictions and these people cannot handle being offended.

The argument of this piece is that this has less to do with Ali G and far more to do with Sasha Baron Cohen and the fact he is Jewish. Since October 7th the left has fallen in love with terrorists and has grown increasingly anti Semitic, notice how when Bruno or Borat 2 came out there was far less of a pushback or move to cancel. Yet the new Ali G film comes out in a post October 7th world and so the left wants to cancel it. The idea of dated representations have nothing to do with it they don’t like that such a prominent Jewish actor, who hasn’t apologised for being so, would dare lead a film.

As this culture war continues to burn on it becomes incredibly obvious that the left weren’t the side of purity and equality they painted themselves as. They hated groups that didn’t conform to how they saw the world, be it straight people or Jews who dare to exist and believe that the state of Israel should as well. This is yet a new battle ground in that war, the fact remains Amazon is backing this so it will get a wide theatrical spread, the efforts to boycott it won’t work just as the efforts to cancel J.K Rowling didn’t.

It’s just pathetic.

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Bad Apples: Finally A Good Dark Comedy

Summary: Dark comedies are notoriously hard to do, either the film is too dark and becomes a drama or it takes things into a silly direction. This film manages to have both darker moments, the kidnapping of a child, but also make it not as depressing as that premise sounds.

The film is sometimes overtly funny and asks you to laugh at some quite messed up things, but Saoirse Ronan does a good job in being both funny but also clearly warped by what she is doing. She doesn’t turn it into just a silly goof and that’s important.

The main issue with the film is that it does not know when to end and has a habit of staying past its welcome.

Overall, a funny dark comedy film.

4/5

Ronan

It’s funny

It gets the tone right

There are some great WTF moments

Cons.

It overstays it’s welcome

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Colony: 28 Days Too Late

Summary: a bioweapon is unleashed in a shopping centre turning people into hive mind zombies.

So this film was quite the disappointment, Train to Buscan is a good film and even it’s sequel had some merits but this film just feels flat. It feels like a tried rehash of so many other zombie films.

The pacing is also quite brutal, on at over 2 hours a lot of this is needless talking and plots about backstabbing. There are times when you just wish the film would hurry up, but it doesn’t.

Overall, a slog that shows that maybe zombies are played out.

2/5

Pros.

It’s got some good action

The hive mind aspect is interesting

Cons.

It’s badly paced

It feels done before

The ending

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Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Heart Of Ghibli

Summary: a young witch begins delivering parcels.

On the site we have covered a number of Ghibli films and whilst other writers have said what their favourites are, for this writer this is a timeless classic.

This is something so warming and wholesome about this film, there is no grand stakes or major villains, but there is a story about self belief and leaning to believe in yourself.

There is a slightly off note quality to the film which is in a lot of Ghibli films and the idea that there is something darker going on beyond the surface of the film, this harms the film. However the broader wholesome elements really help to balance it out.

The animation is of course beautiful and the European influence helps to give this film a distinct sense of identity.

Overall, a wonderful film and possibly one of Ghibli’s best.

4.5/5

Pros.

The charm and wholesomeness

The beautiful animation

The pacing

The music

The European influence

Cons.

The darker undercurrent

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Cinema Issues: DC’S Hatred Of White Men

Way back in May of 2026 Milly Alcock the face of Supergirl felt the need to attack men for controlling women’s bodies on the press tour, she later went after Christian fathers as well for some reason. Herein we see how within James Gunn’s progressive DCU there is a racial and gender based hierarchy. As a young liberal woman Alcock of course was allowed to go off against an entire gender of people with little to no pushback at all.

Now here we are in September 2026 and Lanterns has taken this a step further. Firstly, the Co Host of a DC sponsored podcast accused Hal Jordan, traditional hero of Green Lantern comics of old of being a racist. No push back came from the studio. Gunn and co allow one of the most beloved figures in DC comics to be character assassinated simply because he is white. You can guarantee if something negative was said about Jon Stewart they would have stepped in. It gets much worse sadly, one of the writers of the series said that the Green Lantern ring itself was sexist, which again attempts to attack a classic element of comics lore, and once again DC says nothing as they can’t possibly go against the ad hoc opinion of a young black woman. As such it appears as though DC is quite happy to let its legacy characters be called names and spat on as long as they are white. Who can forget the trailer for Supergirl has Superman being urinated on by a dog. You could argue a pattern is starting to emerge.

Couple all of this with the blatant racism and race hate of the third episode of Lanterns that displayed Hals parents as not only being abusive, but also suffering deeply from victim complexes. Rather than show his parents as bad people the team has instead tried to deify them, which becomes increasingly problematic as his parents also seemed to be black supremacists and hate white people.

As such in one year alone you’ve had an attack on men, Christians and white people, all coming out under the oversight of James Gunn.

Remember if you’re one of these groups they hate you. Do not buy DC merch, don’t watch the films unless you do it in a way where they do make any money, and of course make you feelings known on social media so WBD is well aware.

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I Want Your Sex: Laughing At Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Summary: Harvey Whinstein but a woman.

So whilst there are a few funny moments in the film, and the anti woke commentary is pretty on point there is a massive glaring issue with the film.

Olivia Wilde’s character is a rapist, she records the guy without his consent, pushes him into sexual situations he doesn’t want to be in and does sexual things to him he doesn’t want. Yet at the end of the film rather than having her go to prison, the victim is shown to still be pining for her.

Once again abuse against men is turned into a joke and not a serious problem. Ask yourself if this was a film about a man doing this to a woman would it either a get made or b not be immediately cancelled.

The film is also needlessly graphic and at times it will make you deeply uncomfortable so be prepared for that.

Overall, a film that laughs at male sexual abuse.

1/5

Pros.

The anti woke commentary

Cons.

Laughing at male abuse

Having Wilde’s character get away with it

The graphic nature of it

The pacing

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X-Men 97 Season 2: Marvel Animation Continues To Make Problems

Summary: Disney stuffs about ten years of comics storytelling into a handful of episodes.

You’d think that with Marvel’s new X-Men film on the horizon that they may stop with this, as they are ripping through comics storylines that could be whole sagas on their own in a matter of a few episodes. It is spoiling things to come for a more casual audience as well.

Whilst there is a worry and we’ve expressed it before that Marvel’s X-Men film will try and tell a new X-Men storyline despite the decades of pedigree that exists, it is now becoming that they will adapt these storylines for Disney + with 97 instead.

It’s a lot of the same issues from the first season Morph isn’t non-binary, and doesn’t need so much screen time, they also give a hell of a lot to screen time to Rogue whilst Gambit and Storm generally get a lot less development. There certainly is a sense almost to make Rogue the main character of the show, simply as she is the feature of a popular internet meme.

Overall, much the same as the first season, and without the proper space to explore deeper X-Men themes or ideas as it rushes through storylines.

2/5

Pros.

A few good X-Men moments

Some good action

Cons.

The pacing

The ignored characters

The modern dayisms

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Cinema Issues: The Death Of Star Trek

So much like with Doctor Who and a leftist hack has driven another show into the ground in the name of representation and progressive values.

Before you go “StAr TrEk HaS aLwAyS bEeN wOkE” there is a massive difference between presenting a moral issue or hot button point and then presenting both the sides of the argument and allowing the audience to make their own mind up, or even having a kiss happen and not be focused on and what we got under Kurtzman. Under Kurtzman gone was the debate and in came the lectures this is the difference between a progressive bent done well and one that is hamfisted and forced down your throat. If Alex Kurtzman and co had gotten to redo the first interracial kiss it would have been told over multiple episodes whilst a character rants about modern racism in America and they complain about the hetero normative nature of it.

There is also a skill to adding progressive themes into a mass market show in a way that doesn’t reduce its mainstream appeal. Kurtzman Trek couldn’t manage that it decided to tell long time Trekkies to take a hike if they didn’t like all the new changes to canon, and decided that the LGBTQ+ community and fringe radical progressives where enough to keep the show on air, rather unsurprisingly they weren’t. As we have said at length the LGBTQ community is less than 15% of the world’s population, the amount that also watches Star Trek is even smaller than that. When you alienate a mass audience by making it about fringe issues and forcing almost every character to be LGBTQ+then you see just how unsustainable that business model is.

Star Trek much like Star Wars is also a fading brand in terms of cultural relevance and the kids just don’t care about it. The most likely way to turn it around is to go back to the movies, and do classic stories from the original series films as modern movies and remake them. TV series likely aren’t the way to go.

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