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The Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who has come to an end with the 90-minute-long special “The Power of the Doctor.” It was a special that was a fan service ladened event to celebrate the BBC’s centenary. The Doctor sees some of her greatest threats uniting. The Cybermasters have been terrorising space and captured a […]
What would you do if, at 37 with your entire life ahead of you – newly married, a new parent, career on the way up – you received a diagnosis that essentially gave you only years to live? Most people would probably break down, terrified, angry, unable to see a way forward. Brian Wallach and […]
Black Adam sees a megastar join the DCEU with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson playing the titular anti-hero. Over 5000 years ago the kingdom of Kahndaq was liberated by a legendary figure known as Teth-Adam (Johnson). In the present day, Kahndaq is operated by the Intergang, a group of ruthless mercenaries. Some of the citizens harbour hopes […]
RIP Lucerys Valeryon, Heir of Driftmark. We hardly knew ye (seriously, we hardly knew you – as in I had to look up how to spell Lucerys). It’s all fun and games until your uncle, who looks as old as his mother – seriously, for all the excellent casting work the show has accomplished, and […]
When one survives unspeakable violence to find safety and prosperity on the other side, does one have a duty to maintain allegiance to those who provided it for you? How about if that source of safety, prosperity, and comfort is your spouse – a much older man – who loves you in his own way? […]
From the opening frames of Katrine Brocks’s Danish drama The Great Silence, it’s clear that something is rotten in, well, if not the state of Denmark, then in the convent in which postulant Alma is living. Mere weeks from taking her final vows, Alma appears to be content to spend the rest of her life […]
David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy has come to an end with Halloween Ends. It has already garnered a reputation as one of the divisive films in the Halloween franchise. It has been four years since Michael Myers’ escape and rampage. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has attempted to move on with her life by moving back to Haddonfield and sharing a house with […]
Vesper is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film and a co-production between Lithuania, France, and Belgium. In the future humanity has fallen into a new Dark Age. The elites in the Citadel control all the resources for food production and the rest of humanity toil on a hostile planet. Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) is a young girl who’s a […]
After watching six of the eight episodes of The Peripheral – a new sci-fi puzzlebox drama from Prime Video – I honestly don’t know what to make of the show. An adaptation of William Gibson’s book of the same name (part of a series of books, which one presumes Prime is hoping to adapt further […]
After the highs of “The Eye,” it would have been easy for Andor to take a beat, allow its characters to collect themselves, and take a week off before delving into the next great set piece of the series. So, it says a lot about the series that “Announcement” felt almost as tense as the […]