Spider-Man: Far From Home
A fun, grounded, and often charming take on Spider-Man that does a whole lot to also move the MCU forward. Top marks.
A surprisingly self-aware romp with two excellent actors having a lot of fun, paired with a plot that was surprisingly not awful. A solid attempt.
The perfect blend of quirkiness, nostalgia, music, and charm. It doesn't push any boundaries but what it does do, it does incredibly well. AΒ guaranteed mood lifter!
Dull, bland, boring, and somehow actively worse than the trailer. Just skip it.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
A largely pointless entry to a franchise that appears to have run out of ideas. Its sole purpose is to set up a sequel that sounds awful.
The World of King: A Natural History of Skull Island
The gold standard for creature design tie-in books, with heaps of fantastic ideas and some solid speculative evolution work.
Fantastic Beasts: The Art of the Film
A beautiful collection of concept art and creature design, though lacking in substance beyond the pretty pictures.
Itβs a Dirk Pitt novel. That should tell you everything you need to know, except this one has a more interesting villain than normal.
A clear prototype for what would become the long running Dirk Pitt series with little of novel interest. A page turner, nothing more.
Bill Brysonβs African Diary
Funny and informative, plus all for a good cause. Canβt really complain.
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir of Lady Trent
A wonderfully illustrated and surprisingly detailed world of fantastic creatures; a great work of fantasy with strong characterisation and some genuinely interesting speculative biology. An instant favourite franchise.
A more than worthy successor, with brilliant voice acting, intelligent level design and some very fun new game mechanics.