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First Take: We Live in Time - the director of Brooklyn + Film4 funding = a great start to 2025

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First Take: Paddington in Peru - the trilogy doesn’t quite stick the landing

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First Take: Piece by Piece - the most ‘out there’ documentary released for a while

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First Take: Venom: The Last Dance - Sony once again fumble another superhero film

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First Take - The Wild Robot - DreamWorks’ best hope at an Oscar as their in-house era ends with a bang

First Take: Despicable Me 4 - sometimes minions can’t save a film from daddy issues

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TheJackSmit.com at the 2024 Lytham International Film Festival

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First Take at LYIFF: The Way to Happiness - a delicatessen themed around film, taking its owner on a very personal journey

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Projection Room: open for business at last - Prime Video, meet The Renata Road

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First Take: Deadpool and Wolverine - zero Fox given in the long-awaited threequel

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First Take: IF - rumours of the U certificate’s death are greatly exaggerated

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First Take Classics: The Mummy (1999) - let’s pretend Tom Cruise never ruined the franchise

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First Take: The Garfield Movie - love Mondays. Hate this film.

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First Take: Inside Out 2 - bring all the feels

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First Take: The Fall Guy - stuntmen get more love than the people who actually put the films on

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First Take: Challengers - sport can be cruel sometimes

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First Take: Dune: Part 2 - he who controls the spice, controls the box office

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First Take: Wicked Little Letters - Colman + Buckley + swearing = madness

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First Take: Anyone but You - nothing fake about this ‘rom-con’

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First Take: Poor Things - ‘jumping’ so furious it got (rightly) cut by the BBFC

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2023 Wipe: The Journal Year in Review