The much-anticipated sequel to Todd Phillip’s groundbreakingly, grounded comic book movie is finally upon us. Now, when your first iteration is celebrated for breaking away from the pack and being brilliantly self-contained, a sequel will always come with (perhaps, unachievably) high expectations. And sadly, come the end credits of Joker: Folie à Deux you can’t help but hear the Bee Gees Started to Cry Lyrics “Oh, if I’d only seen, that the joke was on me” as you walk in slow-motion towards the cinema car park.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Substance’ (2024)
We join the once-great Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) as she is abruptly pushed out of the spotlight – now that she’s turning 50. However, she soon discovers she is a perfect candidate for The Substance. An elaborate dosage system of sorts that may “better”, not just her situation… but her actual self.
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Jacked in Reviews ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ (2024)
Tim Burton’s sequel to the 1988 cult classic once again follows the Deetz’s, with Lydia (Winona Ryder) and her estranged daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega) front and centre. Making up the rest of the story is the scorned undead ex, Delores (Monica Bellucci), a deceased Charles Deetz (well, some of him), a crooked fiance to Lydia, Rory (Justin Theroux), a new lad on the scene who has a soft spot for Astrid, Jeremy (Arthur Conti) and paranormal detective, Wolf Jackson (Willem Dafoe). Oh, and Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton)… aaaand breath.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ (2022)
As we open on a black & white prologue showing a mixture of live action and animation, we see the infamous Jean Kayak’s (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) first encounter with a bunch of pesky beavers – who bring about the destruction of his Apple Jack distillery. And with that, his quest for survival over the next hour and forty-eight minutes begins in Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ (2024)
What seems like a lifetime ago, we open up on Logan (Hugh Jackman) where we left him last… Dead. Seven years after the events that transpired in Logan (2017), The Merc with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds) is digging up the grave of our favourite X-Men member in a bid to ignite the adventure of Shawn Levy’s (Free Guy, The Adam Project) Deadpool & Wolverine.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Longlegs’ (2024)
We open on an Oregon farm in the dead of winter through the POV of what looks like a ‘70s home video. A young child has a run-in with a rather unsavoury individual – who is even too tall to fit into the frame. The stranger addresses this by stating “It seems I wore my long legs today” before squatting to reveal their haunting face. And with that, the antagonist of Oz Perkins’ (son of infamous horror legend, Anthony Perkins) tale is introduced in the form of Nicholas Cage’s (like you’ve never seen him before) Longlegs.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘MaXXXine’ (2024)
We first dropped down into the the late seventies with Ti West’s X, before journeying back to 1918 to see the psychotic Pearl in her “prime”. Now, West takes us to 1985, six years after the first instalment to join our sole survivor, MaXXXine Minx (Mia Goth) living in Hollywood.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Kinds of Kindness’ (2024)
If you go into the movie with no preconceptions, what initially appears to be a chapter set up eventually reveals that Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest feature is in fact a triptych tale comprised of several short stories connected by an individual known as R.M.F (Yorgos Stefanakos). And with that the penny drops regarding the three Kinds of Kindness title format on the movie’s promotions.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ (2024)
Before you can get comfy in your (IMAX, obviously) seat, George Miller quickly answers the question raised upon our first viewing of the movie’s trailer “Do you have it in you to make it epic?” with an abso-bloody-lutely. Within the first five minutes, gearheads flee from a “Green Place” and are being pursued by a horseback-riding (then dirtbike-driving), sharpshooting, badass of a mother with a missing kid and thirst for revenge. This is no ordinary helpless child who has been pinched though, she is resourceful and clearly takes after her mother. After all, this isn’t a Mad Max story, this is the story… of Furiosa.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Wicked Little Letters’ (2024)
Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters, a movie that is British from head to toe, so what better place to experience it, than in the establishment that champions the sub-genre… Tyneside Cinema.
Showcasing actual events, “this story that is more real than you think”. Set in 1920s Sussex, in the town of Littlehampton, we follow the well-to-do Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and her authoritarian father, Edward Swan (Timothy Spall). And it seems Edith has been receiving some abusive letters as of late.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024)
Picking up from where we left off, Denis Villeneuve’s sequel gives us a more granular, in-depth experience for the desert planet known as Arrakis in Dune: Part Two.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Iron Claw’ (2023)
The pillars surrounding the screen at Tyneside Cinema provides the perfect opening, as a black and white man comes into focus, (seemingly) pummelling someone within an inch of their life inside the wrestling ring – before using his signature move, The Iron Claw. However, the intensity in the fighter’s eyes isn’t that of passion for the craft… but an obsession.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Poor Things’ (2023)
As we settle into our red velvet seats at Tyneside Cinema, it becomes clear that their gorgeously old-fashioned, classic screen is the perfect vessel to experience this Victorian masterpiece. Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name (well, partly, the full title is, in fact, Poor Things: Episodes From The Early Life Of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer – a very apt title for the beautifully bizarre world in which this story lives), partnering once again, we have Acadamy Award Nominee and BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Tony McNamara (The Favourite & The Great) and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Yorgos Lanthimos’ (The Lobster, Killing of the Sacred Deer & The Favourite) adaptation.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Saltburn’ (2023)
Academy Award-winning, Emerald Fennell brings us her much-anticipated follow-up to Promising Young Woman. The darkly comedic, stylistic, satirical thriller, surrounding class and depravity (quite the understatement), Saltburn.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Dream Scenario’ (2023)
We recently paid a visit to Tyneside Cinema’s Gallery screen. The intimate space and alternative setting provided a very apt experience for Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy, Dream Scenario.
We follow Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage), an average Joe (in every sense of the word) who all of sudden, inexplicably starts turning up in people’s dreams. Having no bearing on the content of the dreams themselves (or the outcome for that matter), Paul simply shows up as an unintrusive voyeur (hilariously not helping, even if the dreamer is in distress or danger).
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