Before Liam and Noel came Matt and Luke. Identical twins, the Goss brothers comprised two thirds of Bros, a pop group fleetingly considered one of the biggest in the world. In Joe Pearlman and David Souter’s oddly hilarious but very much genuine documentary, charting Bros’ thirtieth anniversary reunion last year, the pair are best friends and worst enemies. As Matt – or maybe Luke? – puts it: ‘He was a rectangle and I was a rectangle and we made a square’. This is entertainment turned up to eleven.
Much rides on this second entry in the Fantastic Beasts’ franchise. When J. K. Rowling first wrote a script for The Crimes of Grindelwald, it was to be the middle part of a trilogy. And yet, we now know a further three films lie ahead. Whether the series can thrive, as did its parent: Harry Potter, depends on this one’s capacity to keep the ball rolling. So, how does it stack up? Too much rolling, not enough balls.
Almost a year on from the release of Michael Gracey’s barnum-storming The Greatest Showman, today sees the release of ‘The Greatest Showman: Reimagined’.
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