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I won’t bury the lede for you: the long-awaited second season of Severance is great. I easily found myself swept back up into the world of Lumon, rewatching several of my screeners just to be sure that I caught everything I needed to catch to piece together the various arcs unspooling this time around (a […]
2024 has been the year of musical biopics, with acts ranging from Pharrell Williams to Bob Marley to Amy Winehouse getting movies about their lives. The year closed with an audacious biopic about the British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. As a child, Robert Williams had a flair for showmanship and cheekiness. The young Northern Lad dreams […]
Since his daughter, Flora (Rosanna Adams) was killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21st December 1988, Doctor Jim Swire (Colin Firth) has led a campaign to find out the truth of what happened and to see those responsible brought to justice. It’s a campaign that has taken many turns, as the […]
The ‘live-action’ version of The Lion King was a huge hit for Disney, being the second highest-grossing film of 2019. This success led the studio to greenlight a prequel and hired acclaimed filmmaker Barry Jenkins to direct. Mufasa (Donald Glover) and Nala (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter) are about to have their second cub, and they had to […]
This week’s Skeleton Crew didn’t skimp on the CGI set pieces (that escape of the ship from the jaws of the techno crab metal crushing thing was pretty cool to see), but it excelled in an area that the series has been lacking in past installments: focusing on the interpersonal character beats at the heart […]
It has been eight years since the Brookmans last appeared on TV screens. They return once more for a Christmas Special, this time with the children all grown up. Pete and Sue (Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner) have downsized to a terrace house and are preparing for their children’s return for Christmas lunch in November. […]
“Joy to the World” is the second Christmas special of the Disney era of Doctor Who. This Christmas-set adventure sees The Doctor team up with Derry Girls/Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan. Joy Almondo (Coughlan) books into a hotel in London on Christmas Day 2024. Her simple stay escalates quickly when a Silurian hotel manager and a […]
Many people love cats. They are lovable mischief-makers who know how to get what they want. The French game developers, BlueTwelve Studio, give gamers a chance to play as a realistic cat in a dark cyberpunk adventure. Four stray cats live in the overgrown ruins of an abandoned city. When one of the cats jumps […]
The journey to get to a second season of Squid Game was, well, pretty emblematic of the series itself. First, there was the creator’s (Hwang Dong-hyuk) personal need to create the second season – despite wanting to initially tell a complete story in season one – because, despite the series becoming the most popular show […]
Last year I published a list of my top ten Western animated series. I am doing the same this year. Some are holdovers from last year, like Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, My Adventures with Superman, and Hailey’s On It!. Others are new additions, such as God’s School, Static Shock, Hazbin Hotel, Avatar: The Last […]