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This Peacemaker review contains spoilers. Peacemaker Episode 7 There’s catharsis and then there’s “shooting one’s white supremacist supervillain father in the head with a Nazi-era luger pistol” catharthis. “Stop Dragon My Heart Around”, the penultimate episode of Peacemaker season 1 opts for the latter and is all the better for it.  “Stop Dragon My Heart

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett. Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and Din Djarin finally faced down the Pyke Syndicate and ruthless bounty hunter Cad Bane in The Book of Boba Fett finale. What began with very brief negotiations soon broke out into a full-blown battle in the streets of

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett. The Book of Boba Fett has finally come to a close. Filled with action, as well as a few casualties of war, the finale settles the score between the daimyo of Mos Espa and the Pyke Syndicate once and for all. But where

Warning: contains major spoilers for the Chloe finale The latest buzzy drama from the BBC is Chloe, from creator Alice Seabright, a deliciously twisty six-parter which sees a young woman in Bristol become obsessed with a woman she follows on Instagram and insinuate herself into that woman’s social circle after she is found dead. Only

Warning: contains Peaky Blinders Series 5 spoilers. Since Peaky Blinders broke through on Netflix in the US, its creators have dropped hints about the Hollywood superstars lobbying for roles in the Birmingham-based gangster drama. Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Snoop Dogg, Samuel L. Jackson and more are all fans of the show, and apparently keen to

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe grows, it gains opportunities to include some in-universe Easter eggs to make its continuity feel more lived in. The most recent Marvel TV series for Disney+, Hawkeye, goes so far as to include a full-blown Broadway musical featuring the exploits of that world’s Avengers. But while Rogers: The Musical is

This article contains spoilers for Yellowstone and 1883. On the surface, Taylor Sheridan, Paramount’s golden-boy and keystone to the neo-Western, is one of the most prolific new voices for male moviegoers and television viewers. His works are visceral, raw, violent, and he’s been responsible for creating some of the toughest of tough guys in his

This Trigger Point review contains spoilers. If you were a Met officer who was secretly (and – credit where it’s due – successfully) orchestrating a cross-London terror campaign right under the nose of your employers, would you leave your work locker stuffed with evidence pointing your way? Unlikely. If that A to Z doesn’t just

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 21 “You’re not a slave, nor are you a God. You’re just a human! You don’t have to obey anyone! You can decide. You get to decide!” Back when Attack on Titan first started there was a cryptic nature to the significance

This Star Wars article contains spoilers. Nobody puts Baby Yoda in the corner. Well, other than Luke Skywalker. In Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett, “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” Luke gives Grogu a choice so impossible that several million Star Wars fans cried out in terror, and, as of now, have

Warning: This article contains huge spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy’s ‘A Moral Star Part 2.’ Star Trek: Prodigy has gone from being simply a “kids” version of Star Trek to a Star Wars-like series to now something closer to what some longtime fans expect from the franchise. However, showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman excitedly tease

Warning: this A Discovery of Witches review contains spoilers. What does one wear to a de Clermont creature Christening? The etiquette’s patchy, seeing as Diana and Matthew’s babies are a miraculous anomaly and the family hasn’t hosted a ‘do’ in five hundred years. Something floral, probably. That, or a suit of armour. Rebecca and Philip’s

Those cunning marketing bods at Prime Video sure know what they’re doing. They’ve released 23 character posters for their new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power – but there are no name labels on the posters, and we can’t even see the characters’ faces, just their hands and a bit of a

This Star Wars article contains spoilers. Say what you will about the overall quality of The Book of Boba Fett, there’s absolutely no doubt that it’s leaning heavily on fan service in its final episodes. Tons of easter eggs, callbacks to famous Star Wars moments, and a whopping number of character cameos have turned this

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett. The Book of Boba Fett, a series that went nowhere for its first four episodes, has in the span of two weeks completely turned its fortunes around. But it’s not because The Book of Boba Fett is suddenly a good show. If we’re

The SXSW Film Festival is returning to its in-person roots with a vengeance next month. After several years of going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SXSW will be the year’s first major festival and conference event to return its focus to live festivities when it launches from March 11 to March 20. And with

This STAR WARS: THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT article contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett‘s climactic war against the Pykes grows ever nearer, but first it’s time for a reunion with some old friends. In fact, Din Djarin encounters much of his supporting cast from The Mandalorian in “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” while on

Globalisation isn’t just about lax child labour laws lowering the price of t-shirts; it also has its downsides. Global markets have a tendency to replace local idiosyncrasy with the accessibly bland. Should, for instance, the makers of Sweden’s chocolate Plopp Bar ever branch out into English-speaking territories, they’d be forced to rename their product to

It’s been three years since Paramount first announced the development of a new Star Trek series starring the incomparable Michelle Yeoh. The as-of-yet untitled spin-off has been presented as a story that will follow Yeoh’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou in her work as part of Section 31, the covert intelligence organization that works autonomously within the

This The Gilded Age review contains spoilers. The second episode of The Gilded Age may only be half the length of the series’ premiere, but “Money Isn’t Everything” ironically finds more breathing room for the development of its most important characters and for viewers to see how the main and supporting cast are engaging or

Power Rangers Hyperforce, the interactive live-streamed tabletop role-playing game headed by Hyper RPG, finished its one season run on a massive cliffhanger. The Rangers were faced with an altered future, one where villains Rita, Zedd, and Thrax conquered the world. With no other option the team had to head back in time to try and

Warning: this Trigger Point review contains spoilers. Who is Lana Washington? Yeah, yeah, she defuses bombs, her partner exploded, she gets hot in a heatwave and has a little ponytail, but who is she? After episode one’s series of entertainingly tense set pieces, now’s the time for Trigger Point to deliver on character. Instead, episode

Make fun of the concept of a “how to watch” article if you must, but we’re long past the days of “just flip on the TV and fire up the TV Guide channel, dummy!” Take the beguiling case of the 1883, the Western throwback prequel to Paramount Network’s megahit Yellowstone. Given that Yellowstone is one

The Star Trek franchise may continue to expand with new characters and legacies-in-the-making, but it hasn’t forgotten where it came from either. Following the success of Star Trek: Picard Season 1, Paramount greenlit two more seasons featuring the beloved Starfleet captain. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming Season 2… Star Trek: Picard

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian. The Book of Boba Fett did the inevitable when it brought back The Mandalorian protagonist Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) for a continuation of his own Disney+ adventures. In an episode almost entirely without the main characters from Boba Fett, Din

Warning: this A Discovery of Witches review contains spoilers. Bem vindo, babies! Welcome to A Discovery of Witches, a world of magic, mortal danger, extremely covetable houses, and excellent coats (every character has at least one excellent coat. Presumably the babies will be fitted for theirs shortly). Though their world is fraught with danger, little

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian. After struggling through four very slow-paced episodes in which not much of note happened at all, The Book of Boba Fett has finally delivered a chapter that demands attention. “Return of the Mandalorian” is exciting, spectacularly shot, and takes us

Reports of the Suicide Squad’s demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Less than half a year after James Gunn’s gnarly The Suicide Squad reboot went largely overlooked at the box office in August, the first spinoff from that series, the John Cena-starring Peacemaker, is doing very well on HBO Max according to Gunn. And

There are rumours – but, we should stress, just rumours – of David Tennant returning to Doctor Who in the role of the 14th Doctor. These started on a Facebook group where someone suggested a credible BBC source had leaked the information (this person also leaked the casting of Sacha Dhawan as The Master). This

The latest leaked photos and videos from the set of HBO’s The Last of Us suggest that the series will prominently feature the fascinating story presented in the game’s highly acclaimed DLC expansion, Left Behind. For those who don’t know, 2014’s The Last of Us: Left Behind is the franchise’s only narrative DLC expansion (at