Reviews

Funny, ridiculous, imaginative and knowingly familiar with the pop-culture zeitgeist of its time.

The music is great, with a wide variety of real instrumentation instead of a barrage of synthesized computer beats. The visual aesthetic is refreshingly analogue instead of the cheap 3D animation that plagues kids' content nowadays; it looks like stop-motion although it's hard to really know how it's made.

There's a pleasingly familiar pattern to the episodes, and kids will learn a few things about food. Honestly though, this is entertainment - save the lessons for the classroom!

The show has a gentle pacing, but my three- and six-year-olds are totally hooked. We're all fans of Tiny Chef.

Good romantic adventures are very hard to make. The Lost City works, remaining funny right from the opening moments until the post-credits coda.

All three of the stars are convincing, and there's plenty of chemistry between the two leads. Brad Pitt's extended cameo is flat-out hilarious, and it neatly sets up a contrast to Channing Tatum's deliberately pared-back tone. The writing is modern but not forcedly woke.

Everyone involved deserves credit for taking on a difficult genre without resorting to self-deprecation and glum navel gazing.

Plenty to enjoy for both genders, young(ish) and old.

Carey Mulligan is excellent, her story is harrowing, and it's all quite shocking for a cinema-goer who didn't know the history of the circumstances of working women suffragettes in early 20th century London at all.

The art direction is fastidious in re-creating the setting and moment in history, and the cast - both the women and men playing characters from all across the class divides - all work very hard.

I found it hard to fathom that a domestic terror campaign was required in order for women to receive the right to vote in London. Really. If the same actions were to be taken today - for any cause whatsoever - it would be marked down in the annals of history and be remembered on yearly anniversaries for decades. Yet the memory of London suffragettes was clearly drowned by the forthcoming world wars.

How times change. How easily we forget.