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I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can make an interesting and challenging premise. So, while Relay doesn’t technically offer anything new, it rises to the challenge of...
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I had mixed feelings about watching Good Boy. On one hand, I’d heard nothing but good things about this off-kiltered horror entry even before its debut at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival in March and was eagerly waiting my own chance to view. On the flipside the idea...
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In an age where trailers frequently reveal not only the basic premise of a film but many of its major beats and a raft of potential spoilers, there’s often a feeling that you have already seen the entire thing before you sit down in the auditorium or settle on...
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This summer has a fair few ‘blockbusters’ to parse out its schedule, but the two movies that are theoretically going head-to-head are the big superhero outings: Superman and the Fantastic Four. People love to play off the DC vs. Marvel angle, particularly at a time when both studios are...
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Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has a problem. Politicians – including congressman Bucky Barnes – are scrutinising her every move and she has a closet full of skeletons that she doesn’t want to see the light of day. What better way to clean house than have all her shady operatives...
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When acerbic judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a debilitating stroke, his no-nonsense, authoritarian world takes a hard hit. He finds himself at a care-home, Royal Pines Mews, unable to be as physically in control of his whole body and faced with staff that don’t bow to his every...
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Frustrated comedian Arthur Fleck murdered a chat-show host on live television and while he’s turned into something of a celebrity, the legal system is ready to try him for his crimes. But can Fleck, still adrift from reality and at the mercy of Gotham’s Arkham State Hospital and institutions...
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Conscripted by the industrial complex of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, there are few choices for those simply working to get by and so when Rain and Andy, who initially appear to be a brother and sister, are cheated out of their contract-end, they look to a different strategy. Cautiously, the...
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Aboard the SABER (Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response) space-station, high above the Earth, Nick Fury is trying to get further information about why surges are happening across the jump-point system that should normally allow interstellar travel. Independently both Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau experience a flux in those...
I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can make an interesting and challenging premise. So, while Relay doesn’t technically offer anything new, it rises to the challenge of...
I had mixed feelings about watching Good Boy. On one hand, I’d heard nothing but good things about this off-kiltered horror entry even before its debut at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival in March and was eagerly waiting my own chance to view. On the flipside the idea...
In an age where trailers frequently reveal not only the basic premise of a film but many of its major beats and a raft of potential spoilers, there’s often a feeling that you have already seen the entire thing before you sit down in the auditorium or settle on...
This summer has a fair few ‘blockbusters’ to parse out its schedule, but the two movies that are theoretically going head-to-head are the big superhero outings: Superman and the Fantastic Four. People love to play off the DC vs. Marvel angle, particularly at a time when both studios are...
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has a problem. Politicians – including congressman Bucky Barnes – are scrutinising her every move and she has a closet full of skeletons that she doesn’t want to see the light of day. What better way to clean house than have all her shady operatives...
When acerbic judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a debilitating stroke, his no-nonsense, authoritarian world takes a hard hit. He finds himself at a care-home, Royal Pines Mews, unable to be as physically in control of his whole body and faced with staff that don’t bow to his every...
Frustrated comedian Arthur Fleck murdered a chat-show host on live television and while he’s turned into something of a celebrity, the legal system is ready to try him for his crimes. But can Fleck, still adrift from reality and at the mercy of Gotham’s Arkham State Hospital and institutions...
Conscripted by the industrial complex of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, there are few choices for those simply working to get by and so when Rain and Andy, who initially appear to be a brother and sister, are cheated out of their contract-end, they look to a different strategy. Cautiously, the...
Aboard the SABER (Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response) space-station, high above the Earth, Nick Fury is trying to get further information about why surges are happening across the jump-point system that should normally allow interstellar travel. Independently both Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau experience a flux in those...
Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI,...
As we are told multiple times during the latest (and ‘final’) entry in the big-screen Mission Impossible franchise juggernaut, ‘timing is everything…‘. That may be the case, but time...