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As a Christmas present to the faithful, there are two offerings this month in the Short Treks pantheon and though their collective running time is probably less than the average entry, they both excel at the remit of the mini-episode remit, to boldly go beyond the edges of the...
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Still needing to finance his travels, The Mandalorian seeks out the base of an old associate who wants the warrior and his ship to free a fellow colleague who is being held in a space-prison. But it won’t only be the armoured droids and robots that will prove the...
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After a close encounter with a pursuing ship, The Mandalorian needs to put in repairs and so heads to Mos Eisley, the infamous space-port in the backwater (backsand?) world of Tatooine. But needing money to finance those repairs, he reluctantly agrees to help track a local would-be bounty-hunter for...
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It’s 1905 and George Lynton (Rafe Spall) is a journalist still looking for his first real scoop and facing the quiet wrath of his brother Frederick (Rupert Graves), a government spokesman, who has distanced himself from George over the latter leaving his wife for his truer love, Amy (Eleanor...
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Dorothy and Sean Turner might appear to be the affluent Philadelphia couple with everything, but behind their front-door everything is not well. The truth is that they’re dealing – or not dealing – with a recent tragedy, one that has seen them start to secretly cope in very different...
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The Mandalorian and his ‘cargo’ will have to lay low and to that end, the soldier picks a backwater planet where he figures they can pass a couple of months until the bounty-hunters pursuing them have moved on. But entering a small rural drinking establishment, he discovers that he’s...
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It’s time for The Mandalorian to deliver the ‘package’ and, as per the Guild code, he’s not supposed to ask any questions or do any ‘follow-up’. But delivering a baby – even if it’s a small green baby with some eerie force-ful powers – to a client who doesn’t...
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If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that opinions on sf shows can be divisive. In recent times, Doctor Who and Star Wars have seen their fair share of brickbats, bouquets and binary stars aimed at current efforts and if you can’t please all the people...
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The Mandalorian has his bounty and it’s not what he expected. But now he has to get it and himself off-planet. After making his way back to his ship, he unfortunately finds the vessel ransacked by a group of jawas who have stripped it for parts. If he wants...
As a Christmas present to the faithful, there are two offerings this month in the Short Treks pantheon and though their collective running time is probably less than the average entry, they both excel at the remit of the mini-episode remit, to boldly go beyond the edges of the...
Still needing to finance his travels, The Mandalorian seeks out the base of an old associate who wants the warrior and his ship to free a fellow colleague who is being held in a space-prison. But it won’t only be the armoured droids and robots that will prove the...
After a close encounter with a pursuing ship, The Mandalorian needs to put in repairs and so heads to Mos Eisley, the infamous space-port in the backwater (backsand?) world of Tatooine. But needing money to finance those repairs, he reluctantly agrees to help track a local would-be bounty-hunter for...
It’s 1905 and George Lynton (Rafe Spall) is a journalist still looking for his first real scoop and facing the quiet wrath of his brother Frederick (Rupert Graves), a government spokesman, who has distanced himself from George over the latter leaving his wife for his truer love, Amy (Eleanor...
Dorothy and Sean Turner might appear to be the affluent Philadelphia couple with everything, but behind their front-door everything is not well. The truth is that they’re dealing – or not dealing – with a recent tragedy, one that has seen them start to secretly cope in very different...
The Mandalorian and his ‘cargo’ will have to lay low and to that end, the soldier picks a backwater planet where he figures they can pass a couple of months until the bounty-hunters pursuing them have moved on. But entering a small rural drinking establishment, he discovers that he’s...
It’s time for The Mandalorian to deliver the ‘package’ and, as per the Guild code, he’s not supposed to ask any questions or do any ‘follow-up’. But delivering a baby – even if it’s a small green baby with some eerie force-ful powers – to a client who doesn’t...
If there’s one thing we can all agree on it’s that opinions on sf shows can be divisive. In recent times, Doctor Who and Star Wars have seen their fair share of brickbats, bouquets and binary stars aimed at current efforts and if you can’t please all the people...
The Mandalorian has his bounty and it’s not what he expected. But now he has to get it and himself off-planet. After making his way back to his ship, he unfortunately finds the vessel ransacked by a group of jawas who have stripped it for parts. If he wants...
The end was not only nigh, but feature-length as a two-hour plus episode of Stranger Things attempted to tie-off or trim every major thread from its five season run....
Three more episodes of Stranger Things‘ final season/volume dropped on Christmas Day ahead of the feature-length 31st December finale. It may feel like the spacing of this final run...
In an alternate history, with America emerging from a modern civil war, a special event allows one lucky citizen to win anything they want. A lottery selects fifty people,...
A trawler at sea accidentally catches and kills a life-form that is definitely not the typical fish they were expecting. Ever-vigilant, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) realises the implications...