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Kraven the Hunter is the sixth entry in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role of the vigilante raising hell across the criminal world. Sergei Kravinoff (Taylor-Johnson) is the son of Nikolai (Russell Crowe), a ruthless crime lord. He survived being mauled by a lion when he was a teenager and […]
Poor Things sees three major players from The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Tony McNamara, and Emma Stone return for an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) is a brilliant surgeon who conducts amoral experiments at home. One of his experiments is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a woman with the mind of a child. Godwin hires […]
Up until it reached its (frankly, inevitable) ending, I absolutely loved The World to Come. It’s an utterly gorgeous film, shot with a keen eye by Mona Fastvold, and containing some remarkably still and nuanced performances. But then the ending comes and well, let’s just say that, as a queer woman, I could have told […]
Catch-22 closes with its sixth episode, building up to its emotional climax for Yossarian. After parachuting out of a plane at the end of the last episode Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) arrives at an Italian villa bleeding from his testicles. He gets patched up and has a moment of bliss with an Italian family but it has to end […]
The fifth episode of Catch-22 is the shortest and darkest episode in the season so far. After the mission that led to Nately’s (Austin Stowell) death, Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) and Korn (Kevin J. O’Conner) punish Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) by promoting him and giving him a medal for bravery. Yossarian goes AWOL to find Nately’s whore and tell […]
After the focused story of the previous episode, Catch-22‘s fourth episode is a return to a more sporadic story. After the deaths of McWatt and Kid Sampson, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) decides he is going to do his reminding 11 missions as fast as he can. After completing those missions in six days Yossarian has to wait […]
Catch-22Â continues with a much more focused episode with its third entry. It is the strongest episode in the season so far. The 256th US Army Air Squadron has been given the mission to bomb Bologna. The city is heavily defended by the Germans and Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) believes it will be a suicide mission – […]
Following the first episode of Catch-22 picks up a lot having introduced the characters and the setup for the season. At the end of the previous episode Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) has raised the mission count from 25 to 30, much to John Yossarian’s (Christopher Abbott) dismay. The war progresses in the Allies favour, leading to the […]
Catch-22Â is a celebrated satirical novel by Joseph Heller and has been adapted into a six-part miniseries for Hulu. In the UK the show is being broadcast on Channel 4. The series follows an American bomber squadron based in Italy during the Second World War. The first episode follows John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a bombardier who’s […]
Neil Armstrong is a man known throughout the world yet was a private individual. The film First Man, based on a biography by James R. Hansen, sets out to tell this man’s personal and professional struggles. Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) was a test pilot who applies to become an astronaut after the death of his young […]