Kubo & The Two Strings

(PG) ★★★★½Director: Travis Knight.Cast: (voices of) Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes.They were gonna call it Bug, Boy & Monkey, but it sounded like a '70s folk band.(I may have made this up)PEOPLE talk about Pixar’s impressive strike rate and how the Pixar name is a signifier of quality – which is all totally true – but we also need to be talking about Laika in the same way.Laika is the company...

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War Dogs

(M) ★★★Director: Todd Phillips.Cast: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, JB Blanc, Bradley Cooper."Mention the Fantastic Four remake one more time and my client will punch you in the face."HOW did two 20-something stoners from Miami end up scoring a $300 million contract with the US government to supply weapons to armed forces in Afghanistan?That’s exactly what the media was asking back in 2008 when the story of David Packouz...

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Sausage Party

(MA15+) ★★★★Director: Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon.Cast: (voices of) Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek.No one knew what to expect at Elton's Oscar party.LOOKING back at the incredible filmmaking technology unleashed by Pixar’s magnificent debut Toy Story in 1995, it's inevitable we would end up with something...

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Suicide Squad

(M) ★★Director: David Ayers.Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne."I just know there's a decent DC movie around here somewhere."AT the risk of firing up the DC troll brigade again, Suicide Squad is another disappointment in the DC Extended Universe.So that’s three films down, and three fumbles, for those of you playing along at home. On the plus...

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Jason Bourne

(M) ★★★Director: Paul Greengrass.Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed.Matt Damon spotted Jimmy Kimmel in the crowd.FOURTEEN years on from his cinematic debut, it’s easy to forget how big an impact Jason Bourne had on the world of movie spies.While James Bond was driving invisible cars around ice castles and Ethan Hunt was in between impossible missions and unfathomable stunts, Bourne burst on...

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