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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Review

★★★

Three years on from Rob Letterman’s inaugural adaptation of the popular R. L. Stine Goosebumps books, a new cast and crew have been assembled to tell much the same story in a sequel. This one lacks its forebear’s ingenuity and zest but should still give youngsters a spooktastic, Slappy-dash ride as the nights draw in.

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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot | Review

★★★

Perhaps all too aware that the memoir of John Callahan plays very friendly to his brand of no-hopers-done-good cinema, director Gus Van Sant tackles this adaptation of the cartoonist’s biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot with a wilful, often alienating, idiosyncrasy. The film marks an admirable attempt to break Hollywood moulds and actually comes pretty close in the hands of its exceptional cast.

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