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As eagle-eared viewers likely deduced last week, part of Fennec Shand’s plan to fight off the Pyke Syndicate involves getting our friend and their’s Din Djarin (aka Mando) to join team Boba Fett. I mean, when The Mandalorian theme music plays immediately following Fennec mentioning buying muscle, it’s kind of a foregone conclusion. The return […]
Screw has reached its halfway point. After the disappointment of Episode Two the series needs to up its game. Rose has crossed the line: she has smuggled drugs and a gun into the prison for Costa. Her actions take place on the day a new guard joins C-wing, Toby (Jack Bardoe). Leigh gets a warning from […]
If there’s one question every TV critic hears time and again it’s: “I’ve finished Parks and Rec/The Good Place/The Office/Brooklyn 99/Schitt’s Creek and I need a new comedy. What should I watch?” If someone is looking for a show with a bit of an edge, I tend to recommend The Other Two or Mythic Quest, […]
Licorice Pizza is a ‘70s set coming-of-age film from the acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. His latest film sees an unusual relationship between a 15-year-old and an older woman. Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) is a child actor who flirts with Alana Kane (Alana Haim), a photographer assistant on school picture day. Despite the 10-year age difference […]
We’re now halfway through The Book of Boba Fett and I’m still not 100% sure just what the series is trying to do. So far, we’ve seen a complex and interesting story of Fett’s past – escape from the Sarlacc Pit, learning at the side of the Tuskens, deciding he wanted to be a part […]
Several years ago, it was announced that an adaptation of the classic novel Lord of the Flies was set to be made into a new film – only this time, instead of a cadre of boys on the island, it would be a group of girls marooned and left to their own devices. Naturally, the […]
Screw started with a strong opening episode, and the second episode had the task to build on this solid foundation. Leigh believes one of the prisoners is being bullied and sets out to find out why, leading Leigh to make a surprising discovery. Rose gets the unenviable task of dealing with a wheelchair-bound prisoner who is a […]
Wes Craven’s original Scream was a genre-defining masterpiece. Prior to its 1996 release, mainstream horror was pretty much dead. Audiences had grown tired of the increasingly ludicrous sequels popular franchises were churning out at that point. The only move left was to make a horror movie about horror movies. Through its meta deconstruction of slasher […]
It is intriguing that, following the massive backlash the series finale of CBS’s juggernaut How I Met Your Mother endured, anyone thought it might be a good idea to try again – this time with a mother telling her child how she met their father. But, after several fits and starts*, How I Met Your […]
Universal Pictures’ spy-thriller The 355 is the first major cinematic release of 2022. It is also set to be one of the first box-office flops of the year despite its all-star cast. A special program on a hard drive that can hack any network has disappeared after a raid in Colombia. It appears again when a DNI […]