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Way better than the first Suicide Squad! Goes off with a bang and doesn't try and be anything but ridiculous, funny and bizarre! James Gunn has definitely taken a lot of his Guardians of the Galaxy style and thrown it at the DCEU.

Great cast, great music, funny dialogue, and weird story, all make for a fun filled and action packed experience.

The second round of Suicide Squad finds our heroes heading to a small Hispanic island to destroy a research lab after a change in dictatorship on the premise of destroying some dangerous technology...it starts like that and then gets steadily stranger! It doesn't take itself too seriously at all which is refreshing for the DCEU and it's a just a really fun and enjoyable experience!

A collection of 3 short stories, retold within the framework of reviewing 3 articles for the "French Dispatch" an expat paper based in France, bringing news of the world to Kansas.

A fun film, "typical" Wes Anderson in style, with a huge cast featuring many of his preferred collaborators, all delivering excellent performances. Dialogue as always is snappy, cinematography, and use of colour is impactful and the film carries pace which keeps you interested throughout.

That being said the flitting between black and white, and colour is a little distracting at times, and the breaking of the film's core into 3 separate short stories is a little disjointed.

Compared to The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Fantastic Mr. Fox or The Royal Tenanbaums, which had brilliant story arcs and overall plot lines over the course of a whole film, The French Dispatch suffers because not all of the 3 stories has enough time to really draw you in.

It holds your attention but you don't ever get the satisfaction at the end that so many of his other films deliver, despite the effort to pull it all together within a melancholy ending.

This short documentary about the unbelievable achievement undertaken by Nims Purja and his team of fellow Nepalese sherpas is just astounding!

Prior to his mountaineering he was in the military serving with the Gurkhas, first member to be selected for the special forces serving in the SBS, that in itself is a hell of an achievement.

Then he decides to smash the current 7 year record of summitting all 14 of the world's highest mountains, (all over 8,000m) by doing it in 7 months. All with no money and running on self belief and whatever financing he can scrape together.

The footage from the various summits is stunning, and clearly shows how tough and daunting each summit was. How Nims and his team kept being able to push through, making their summits in record time, often in the dark, and rescuing other climbers in the process...is an incredibly motivating and inspiring watch!