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This week, rather unexpectedly, saw the drop of an extra Sandman episode on Netflix. Though it’s billed as a singular gift, it’s actually two stories – distinct in subject, tone and presentation, but each rather delightful and based on shorter, diversionary tales from Neil Gaiman’s original Vertigo/DC comics run...
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Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) has a problem. His estranged wife and daughter are tired of his unreliability and are thinking of moving away. Bud needs to find a better way to support them, but his business isn’t what it used to be. Bud appears to be an average pool-cleaner,...
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The start of the 20th Century and as the creature known as The Sandman/Dream/Morpheus is about to send an escaped nightmare back to the land of Dreaming, another all-too-mortal and ruthless man, scarred by the death if his first-born son and attempting capture ‘Death’… instead imprisons Dream. It will...
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Stranger Things success has been that perfect combination of nostalgia and marketing. The complaint that it homages, mines or outright steals from the material that was popular in the 1980s is undeniable – it has never made any secret of the reverence it has for that era and its...
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Evil may never be truly defeated, but it seems like the kids (and adults) of Hawkins may have triumphed for the time being. The Byers may have left town, but the ties that bind them to the town still remain strong, if stretched. However, a series of horrific deaths...
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Mickey Haller, once the rising star and enfant terrible of the legal world, has been having a bad time. An important case went south and a subsequent surfing accident left him hooked on Oxycodone… for over a year he’s faced a hard struggle back and is still reassessing whether...
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On a battlefield bridge, two young girls – Vi and Powder – find they are now orphans and Vander, a man with previous blood on his hands, finds a new reason to go forward. As the years pass, the divide between the shiny city of Piltover and its neon-hued...
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Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) is a fast-mouthed, snarky art-thief who takes on jobs for the thrill rather than the pay-off. He’s very good at what he does and has a home full of stolen artefacts to prove it. When Interpol Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya) and an advisor named...
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After serving four years in prison for a drunk-driving accident that killed a young woman, Riley Flynn returns to the island community of his childhood. He’s a man adrift, shamed by his actions and not sure what to make of his life. His return is less one of desire,...
This week, rather unexpectedly, saw the drop of an extra Sandman episode on Netflix. Though it’s billed as a singular gift, it’s actually two stories – distinct in subject, tone and presentation, but each rather delightful and based on shorter, diversionary tales from Neil Gaiman’s original Vertigo/DC comics run...
Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) has a problem. His estranged wife and daughter are tired of his unreliability and are thinking of moving away. Bud needs to find a better way to support them, but his business isn’t what it used to be. Bud appears to be an average pool-cleaner,...
The start of the 20th Century and as the creature known as The Sandman/Dream/Morpheus is about to send an escaped nightmare back to the land of Dreaming, another all-too-mortal and ruthless man, scarred by the death if his first-born son and attempting capture ‘Death’… instead imprisons Dream. It will...
Stranger Things success has been that perfect combination of nostalgia and marketing. The complaint that it homages, mines or outright steals from the material that was popular in the 1980s is undeniable – it has never made any secret of the reverence it has for that era and its...
Mickey Haller, once the rising star and enfant terrible of the legal world, has been having a bad time. An important case went south and a subsequent surfing accident left him hooked on Oxycodone… for over a year he’s faced a hard struggle back and is still reassessing whether...
On a battlefield bridge, two young girls – Vi and Powder – find they are now orphans and Vander, a man with previous blood on his hands, finds a new reason to go forward. As the years pass, the divide between the shiny city of Piltover and its neon-hued...
Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) is a fast-mouthed, snarky art-thief who takes on jobs for the thrill rather than the pay-off. He’s very good at what he does and has a home full of stolen artefacts to prove it. When Interpol Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya) and an advisor named...
After serving four years in prison for a drunk-driving accident that killed a young woman, Riley Flynn returns to the island community of his childhood. He’s a man adrift, shamed by his actions and not sure what to make of his life. His return is less one of desire,...
Far away on the planetoid of Knowhere, Peter Quill is feeling a little lonesome. Gamora is nowhere to be found and his fellow Guardians realise that this strange human...
Cassian Andor has returned to Ferrix in time for his adoptive mother’s funeral. But even as the local townspeople come to honour one of their most respected citizens, there...
After eleven years, an evolution of its cast and only a few less time jumps than House of the Dragon, AMC‘s The Walking Dead bowed out this weekend. When...
While Cassian and Melishi try to find a way off the icy landscape surrounding the Narkina 5 prison, other plans are being put in motion around the galaxy. Luthen...