Ian Freer
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 17, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Empire
- Top 100K sites
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- Sep 8, 2026
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Hungry review: 'The scariest thing about the film is the NOW TV thumbnail' (opens the original)
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Hippotamuses in pop culture have mostly been treated warmly. From the dancing kind in Disney’s Fantasia to Jada Pinkett Smith’s Gloria in Madagascar to George in ITV kids’ staple Rainbow, the semi-aquatic mammals have often been presented as gentle, benign and surprisingly nimble. Writer-director James Nunn’s Hungry — the title itself riffs on the fun, frantic table-top game Hungry Hungry Hippos — tries to redress the balance by turning Hippopotamus amphibius into an unstoppable killing machine,
Pressure review: D-Day thriller is 'so gripping, even your dad might stay awake' (opens the original)
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If 100 minutes of weather chat sounds like your idea of hell, then feel the Pressure. A well-mounted, extremely efficient World War II thriller, this latest from director/co-writer/editor Anthony Maras delivers an absorbing lesson in filmic forecasting, as the fate of the free world seesaws on the vagaries of wind speed, precipitation, cloud cover and visibility levels. The result is a comfy old-school pot-boiler — at one point there is a literal ticking clock — anchored by the ever-brilliant An
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