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 Nobody expected the first Frozen to be as big a hit as it became. Which explains (in part) why this sequel at times feels a bit tentative: when a film becomes a surprise hit, it’s hard to figure out exactly what it is that audiences are responding to.  Obviously the relationship between out-of-place and superpowered Elsa (Idina Menzel) and her feisty and devoted younger sister Anna (Kristen Bell) was central, and so it is again; living snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) was a big laugh-getter for the kids and so he’s stumbling around again. As for Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), the film makes his why-exactly-am-I-here? status a plus, as he struggles to propose to Anna while wondering if a relationship is even what he really wants (inspiring the film's best song).  But the story itself is a bit of a mish-mash, tying the origin of Elsa’s powers (which aren’t really explained anyway) in with her kingdom’s unsurprisingly dark colonist past in a way that works reasonably...

                        It’s the season for revisiting the lies and cover-ups around the Iraq War, as this (coming on the heels of The Report ) tells another true story of governmental deceit, this time from the UK side of things. Which, as it turns out, is just as sinister and blood-thirsty as everyone else. It’s 2003, and Katharine Gun (Kiera Knightly) works as at GCHQ as basically an government eavesdropper, going through bugged conversations for useful information. But when she gets a US memo asking for blackmail material to swing an upcoming UN vote to make the seemingly inevitable Iraq War legal she turns whistleblower, leaking it to a friend who eventually gets it to the press.  This, as you might expect, does not impress the government, and soon she’s right in their sights. There's something satisfyingly sinister about watching the UK establishmen...

This latest reboot of the tried-and-true 70s concept is a salute to how resilient that concept actually is: most franchises (cough Terminator cough) would start flailing after a failed TV series, a shoddy video game and a second movie in 2003 that killed off most peoples’ desire for a third.  Writer-director-star Elizabeth Banks makes this sequel (mostly) work by keeping it simple and (relatively) low key - not having the budget of a big blockbuster probably helped there. The story largely sticks to the basics: when scientist Elena (Naomi Scott) uncovers a way her company’s big invention (some kind of battery) can be turned into a weapon, she also discovers her bosses don’t seem to care.  Enter Charlies Angels – well, two of them (it’s now a global organisation), as loose cannon Sabina (Kristen Stewart) and former MI6 agent Jane (Ella Balinska) lead the investigation, only to discover things are a lot more deadly at the power company than they first seemed....

Doctor Sleep is a lot of things – a sequel, a possible first installment in a new franchise, a chance for Stephen King to get one last kick into the movie version of The Shining and reclaim it as his own – but is it a horror movie?  Obvious it contains scary stuff - kids are murders by supernatural forces, so good news there for It fans - but that in itself doesn't make a movie scary. As shown by the second half of It , for starters.   So there answer here is "no, not really". Yes, the story does involve a band of soul-sucking almost-vampires who feed off what we know as “The Shining”, and the now grown-up Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) does face down a bunch of ghosts both literal and metaphorical.    But for long stretches this film seems more interested in just hanging out with its cast as the bad guys – led by Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) - slowly circle in on Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran), a young girl with a Shining stronger than anyone’s seen. Which rap...