This is a spoiler-free review for episodes 1 to 5 of season 3. Season 2 of The Boys did a fantastic job of tying up multiple plot threads in both an entertaining and satisfying way, while still managing to set up and tease some exciting new ones for season 3. With Stormfront left badly burned […]
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a brilliantly titled film starring Nicolas Cage as… Nic Cage. Bringing an entirely new take to meta filmmaking, it’s possibly the most absurd film you’ll see all year. The problem is that instead of sticking to full-blown meta comedy, this tries to bring in an actual plot full
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Starring Oscar Isaac, Moon Knight is the first Marvel release to be completely untethered from the rest of the MCU. In what could have been a risky move that might easily polarise fans, the end result is a hugely entertaining story that is probably the best Marvel show to date. The show opens with Steven
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the latest mind-bending Marvel release, seeing the return of the eponymous sorcerer, his first solo outing since his origin film in 2016. With Evil Dead and original Tobey Maguire Spider-Man director, Sam Raimi at the helm, Multiverse of Madness see the MCU take a rather dark, scary
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Everything Everywhere All at Once follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) through the chaotic multiverse of what-ifs on her quest to save the world. Evelyn’s life is falling apart. She and her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), are on the brink of divorce and their laundromat is failing and being audited by the IRS. Her disapproving
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The Northman follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard) on his bloody quest for revenge against his uncle, Fjolnir (Claes Bang). As a child, Amleth witnessed the murder of his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), by Fjoinir’s hand, narrowly escaping being murdered himself and vowing to avenge his father and save his mother, Queen Gudrun (Nicole Kidman). The
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Desperate for a cure for his unnamed blood disease, renowned biochemist Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), captures vampire bats from a cave in Costa Rica in order to use their DNA for a cure. As a child, Morbius received treatment for his disease in Greece, where he met his surrogate father, Dr Emil Nicholas (Jared
The Lost City centres around successful romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock). Still grieving the loss of her archaeologist husband, she forces herself to write one more book in her popular romance-adventure series using research that she and her husband completed together, and calls it The Lost City of D. After the release, Loretta agrees to
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Peacemaker is the latest DC show to hit our screens, following on from the events of last year’s reboot/sequel The Suicide Squad. Written and directed by James Gunn, the man behind both The Suicide Squad and the Guardians of the Galaxy films, it shouldn’t be a massive surprise that Peacemaker is by far the best
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Based on Gege Akutami’s four-chapter prequel, Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) 0 introduces a crucial character, Yuta Okkotsu, to the overall JJK story. Yuta is haunted by his childhood friend, Rika, who died after being hit by a car. Rika becomes a powerful, special grade curse that appears whenever Yuta is bullied and after four bullies are
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Coming to Netflix on March 18th, Black Crab is a Swedish action thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by war. Directed by Adam Berg and starring Noomi Rapace, it’s a great looking film with war elements that really manage to strike a chord, with everything that’s currently going on in the world. Caroline
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The Adam Project is the latest Netflix produced release, a mind-bending sci-fi with its new take on time travel. Despite reuniting director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds following on from last year’s fun and entertaining Free Guy, I had fairly low expectations. But what could quite easily have been yet another lacklustre Netflix release instead
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The Batman is the latest incarnation of the Dark Knight, this time taken on by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves. Coming only a few years after Ben Affleck’s appearance as the caped crusader, The Batman sees Robert Pattinson take on a much darker, gothic version of the hero, to surprising success. The film opens in Gotham
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The Book of Boba Fett begins immediately following the events of the second season of the Mandalorian. Boba (Temuera Morrison), accompanied by Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), kills Bib Fortuna and takes over Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Boba claims the title of Daimyo with the intention of ruling Jabba’s territories as a benevolent leader. As expected,
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The Cuphead Show is a 12 episode animation series, coming to Netflix on February 18th. It is based on the critically acclaimed run-and-gun 2017 video game Cuphead (aka Cuphead: “Don’t Deal with the Devil”), originally an Xbox console exclusive, before making its way onto the Nintendo Switch, which was where I first encountered it. Inspired
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Uncharted is the long-awaited film adaptation of the hit game series, finally hitting the big screen after spending nearly 15 years in development. With a cast and trailer that left die-hard game fans unconvinced, sadly the end result doesn’t do enough to convince even an Uncharted novice that it’s worth its weight in gold. Directed
