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New Original Song by Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber for Universal Pictures' Cats out 20 December

New music Friday has good news today! In fact, Universal Pictures have announced that global music icon Taylor Swift and legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber have collaborated on a new, original song written for Universal Pictures’ film Cats, based on Lloyd Webber’s record-shattering stage musical. The song, Beautiful Ghosts, will feature in both the film and in the end credits. The song…
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Film review: The Addams Family

Get ready to snap your fingers! The Addams Family is back on the big screen in the first animated comedy about this creepy and kooky clan. You may think your family is weird but the outlandish, bizarre, and completely iconic Addams Family, will have you thinking again.  To celebrate the release, in cinemas on 25th October, we’re also giving away a set of character costumes to a lucky winner.
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Mystify: Michael Hutchence rockumentary review

Mystify: Michael Hutchence is the best rockumentary I have ever watched. It is epically emotional and sexy. It made me smile but also cry a lot! Totally unmissable! Mystify: Michael Hutchence by film director and Michael’s close friend Richard Lowenstein sheds a light on the life and career of the charismatic INXS frontman Michael Hutchence who tragically died prematurely. It is a documentary…
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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon - Behind the scenes with film directors Will Becher and Richard Phelan

From the multi-Academy Award-winning studio that brought you Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, comes A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, a hilarious tale of friendship and mischief between the world’s favourite sheep and an adorable alien, as they embark with the whole flock on an epic and out of this world adventure to send her back home. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is a truly…
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Film review: Disney's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Five years after the release of the hit film Maleficent, Disney is bringing back the horned fairy in a new and captivating film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil which children and adults alike will fully enjoy. I must admit that I end up loving the main character. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil will be in cinemas from 18th October 2019 just in time for the school half-term break.  The story From the…
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Film review: Abominable out in UK cinemas from 11 October 2019

Abominable is a magical poetic and emotional fairytale. It’s an original family animation that London Mums and kids’ club would highly recommend to watch over the forthcoming half-term school holidays. Abominable will be released on 11 October in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. The story DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s co-production Abominable takes audiences on an epic…
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Books

Picture Book of the week: Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o

As a lifestyle journalist I come across lots of very interesting people every day, but there’s one lady that has inspired me from day one and that is Academy-Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o. I was lucky enough to meet her a few times at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens press conference and at the Black Panther premiere. Those short moments really sealed my conviction that Lupita Nyong’o…
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Book of the week: The Phone addiction workbook by Hilda Burke

The Phone addiction workbook by debut author Hilda Burke is an un-putdownable self-aid manual that is so effective in helping you to detox yourself from phone addiction that by the time you have finished reading it, you have lost interest in the smartphone altogether. Despite my best efforts to keep away from phone distractions, I recently realised that I am actually hooked on the instant…
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Chatting to film director Rupert Goold about Judy starring Renee Zellweger

I have caught up with film director Rupert Goold in Central London about his latest movie Judy starring Renee Zellweger, the biographical story of one of the biggest entertainment legends in the world, Judy Garland. Judy bounces back and forth between Garland’s teenage years in Hollywood and the twilight of her career, when she took a strenuous job as a singer at a London nightclub in order to…
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Film review: Downton Abbey The Movie

Downton Abbey the movie is out in cinema from today and is a blast for all fans of classic British period dramas even or especially on the big screen. It provides hilarious almost ridiculous gags and enjoyable escapism away from all this Brexit nonsense. Don’t miss it! Here’s my short review in which I reveal why I liked it. In a few weeks’ time I will publish a full Downton Abbey behind the…
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