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I’d be lying if I said that I remember the original Chicken Run in detail. Assuming I watched it around the time of its release, I would’ve been three years old, so that’s probably why. Still, it’s Aardman , so you know it’s going to be high quality when it comes to the animation department. The three original Wallace and Gromit films were my bread and butter growing up, bowling me over with their inventive visuals and compelling villains as well as their gentle humour and tension. The Wrong Trousers’ Feathers McGraw (genius name, whoever came up with that) kept my older brother on absolute tenterhooks as he watched the bad guy with fear and fascination, and there’s camcorder footage to prove it.

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Tension, betrayals, murder, paranoia. Pretty standard British espionage fare. The general setup of Treasonisn’t anything new. Daredevil’s Charlie Cox plays up-and-coming MI6 employee Adam Lawrence, who gets called to the big spot after head honcho Martin Angelis (Ciaran Hinds) is poisoned. Treason was released last December, but it’s still a bit weird to see Cox and Hinds back at it again at Krispy Kreme (if you’re not picking up on that meme reference, that’s cool) after watching Kin so recently. Before he can get comfortable, though, accusations against Lawrence and his involvement in Angelis’ assassination attempt come thick and fast, and we’re supposed to question how trustworthy Lawrence actually is.

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Groundhog Day gave the cinematic world a nicely wrapped gift when it appeared on screens back in 1993. A simple gift, but an effective one nonetheless. The central character experiences a fairly standard day, goes to bed as per usual, then wakes up to find that they’re stuck in that exact same day. Nothing changes, characters say the same things, events play out exactly as they did the day before. Then it’s up to the character to try and see if they can change things. 

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Another month, another round up. A decent range of video games, movies and TV. On we go.

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I wasn’t sure what to think of Bodies going into it, having little to no context about the plot. From the vague things I’d seen advertised, it seemed like a standard period crime drama, but I gradually realised there’s a lot more going on once the story progressed. A conventional set-up where a Victorian police officer discovers a dead body turns into something more complex when said body is also found in the same location by detectives in the 1940s war-torn England, our modern day England, and once more in a dystopian futuristic England. 

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