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“Hi, Chris, any chance you could pen us a spoiler-free review of the Doctor Who special?” Well… Not really, no. Not that we’d ever risk giving the game away ahead of the upcoming New Year’s Day adventure (a ‘Festive Special’, as the BBC have termed it) but the thing is, this is a very story-driven
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The Fast & Furious films love their over the top action. In the trailer for F9 alone we’ve got a “magnet plane” catching a car, a Jeep driving along a collapsing bridge, a car somehow catching a steel cable and using it launch itself across a gorge, and a car with a rocket engine strapped
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This article contains Wonder Woman 1984 spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here. There’s a lot going on throughout Wonder Woman 1984‘s (very long) runtime. At one point in the film we learn the origin of Diana’s Golden Eagle armor, and that it once belonged to a legendary Amazon warrior named Asteria, who stayed
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This Bridgerton article contains MAJOR spoilers for the first season. If you’re anything like us, then you binged Bridgerton, the new Netflix period romance series, very quickly and are now desperate for more. But will there be a Season 2? Almost certainly. While a second season of Bridgerton has yet to be officially announced, Production
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This article contains Soul spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. What are you going to do with your life? It’s a looming question, and one that a few days ago Jamie Foxx’s Joe Gardner thought he knew the answer to. He was going to play jazz, professionally, and break into the music industry—specifically
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It was hardly a surprise back in October when Disney announced that its upcoming new animated film from Pixar, titled Soul, would premiere on the company’s Disney+ streaming service instead of opening in theaters. Soul was originally slated to open theatrically this past summer, with its release date set long before the coronavirus pandemic shut
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It’s been a staying-in kind of year. That New Year’s Resolution you made to travel more? It’s gained 20 pounds, started cutting its own hair and is now in a jigsaw club with your neighbour Ken. The only marathon you’ve completed in 2020 is a Battlestar Galactica rewatch. The only mountain you’ve climbed is the
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This Vikings season 6 part two review is based on all 10 episodes and contains no spoilers. Vikings has always been Ragnar Lothbrok’s (Travis Fimmel) story. First, we witnessed the rise of the man himself from farmer to visionary to earl to king to legend. Post-Ragnar, the show became an exploration of how Ragnar’s legend
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This The Expanse review contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 5 Episode 4 Ever since it began, The Expanse has known how to build action, which isn’t remarkable in itself for a sci-fi show. What makes this series different is that with very little exposition, it can create a sense that, as unsettled as things seem
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is one of those rare films with only one major setting: a Chicago recording studio in 1927. The entire film, and the play it was based on, tells the story of four backing musicians waiting for Madame “Ma” Rainey (Viola Davis) to arrive and cut some sides. According to the label
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The holidays are a special time around 30 Rock. While tourists flock to see the towering Christmas tree, the Saturday Night Live writers room is busy thinking of holiday sketches you’ll reminisce about as you put up the stockings for years to come. Some of SNL’s all-time great sketches illustrate the best of the holiday
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CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the the biggest video game release of 2020, transporting players to a gritty sci-fi world full of bio-augmented criminals and lowlives. True to its name, the game explores some pretty deep concepts about cyberspace and what life might be like in a futuristic transhuman society where technological advancements
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While the bulk of Wonder Woman 1984‘s action takes place in Washington, D.C., production for the Wonder Woman sequel was actually based in London at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. What does that mean? Well, pretty much all of the interior scenes you see play out in the film—from the scenes in the White House to the
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The Doctor is in, and it’s about time. Although, it should be noted that the Doctor is also in a maximum-security prison, and time is running short for Earth with the return of the Daleks. Thankfully the Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker, has her Companions, as well as the newly returned Captain Jack Harkness,
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This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. The problem with prophecy narratives is all the time they spend in the future tense. Such-and-such will change everything. So-and-so is going to save the world. Before a story moves towards a climactic battle, there’s so much team-picking and bag-packing to be done. While avengers are assembled and characters line up to
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The Zodiac Killer attacked at least eight people in California between 1966 and 1969. He claimed to have killed at least 37 people, although only five of those deaths can be definitively attributed to the killer. While the Zodiac Killer has never been caught, his case is still active, and now one major mystery has
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Amazon’s new female-centric castaway series The Wilds doesn’t hold back when it comes to throwing mysteries at its characters (and the audience) and, following its first ten episodes, the two timelines we’ve been following both conclude with cliffhangers of differing kinds. One, which has been following the girls as they try to survive on a
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