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When one hears the phrase “Catholic Church thriller,” I suspect one thinks immediately of something like a Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code-type film, with dead bodies of Cardinals appearing in fountains in Rome and potentially blasphemous revelations about Catholic Dogma. Conclave, a new film being marketed as a thriller (and adapted from Thomas Harris’ novel of […]
Nuclear War is one of the greatest threats to mankind. It can destroy cities and contaminate the world. In 1984 the BBC broadcast Threads, a film that showed the impact of nuclear war in and around Sheffield. There are increased tensions in the Middle East when the Soviet Union invades Iran after an American-backed coup in […]
Hysteria! the new horror thriller series on Peacock has a lot going for it. One look at the cast list – Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, True Blood), Nolan North (a prolific voice actor who is making a welcome return to TV), and Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood, among many […]
Well, there we have it. The origin story of the MCU’s version of Wiccan, a character with complex origins in the Marvel comics (although all of them do intersect with Wanda Maximoff in some fashion). And while it was pretty close to what most folks online had guessed – he was once William Kaplan (and […]
I was luke warm on Shrinking back in early 2023 when it premiered. And now, having watched the final four episodes of season one in preparation for watching the first six of the upcoming second season, I see more of what the series was trying to do in its uneven initial series offering. That’s a […]
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most recognisable video game characters. In 2017 he celebrated his 25th Anniversary with Sonic Mania and the expanded version, Sonic Mania Plus was released in 2018, bringing 2D platforming goodness to fans young and old. Sonic and his friend’s lives are disrupted once again by Doctor Robotnik after […]
Art the Clown returns for a third entry in the Terrifier series and tortures and kills his way through Miles County. Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) has been released from a psychiatric hospital, having suffered from trauma and survivor’s guilt. Sienna moves in with her Aunt Jessica (Margaret Anne Florence) and her family during Christmas. Sadly, […]
For the first time in its run, this episode felt almost incomplete. Sure, we had a couple of interesting (and sad) revelations within it, but this particular task didn’t have the same heft as the previous two* and even though we lost another member of the coven (and Rio got another body for her troubles […]
It has been 39 years since the Transformers series made its cinematic debut with The Transformers: The Movie. Transformers One sees everyone’s favourite Autobots and Decepticons have their first cinematic animated adventure since the 1980s. Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry) are lowly miner bots who can’t transform. Even though the pair […]
In 2019 Joker blasted onto screens, being the first R-rated film to cross the billion-dollar barrier, earning 11 Oscar nominations and winning two of them. The sequel has now been released and has a lot of expectation placed upon it. It has been two years since Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) took on his Joker persona […]