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‘Andor’ Season 2 Episodes 4-6 Review: Ever Been to Ghorman?, I Have Friends Everywhere, and What a Festive Evening

In its second week, Andor’s second series has again jumped a year forward, covering a span of mere days in BBY 3. The jump can be disorientating at first, as the cast of characters finds itself in largely new configurations. However, the show is confident enough to hint at what …

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‘Andor’ Season 2 Episodes 1-3 Review: One Year Later, Sagrona Teema, and Harvest

A lot has changed in the two and a half years since Andor first landed on Disney+ screens in autumn 2022 in the wider world, and the return of possibly Star Wars’ most overtly political and subversive entry was highly anticipated. While always in production as a two-season show, the …

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Interview: Yun Xie, Stephanie Pardi, & Stevie Kincheloe on the Haunting Realities of Under the Burning Sun

This year’s Slamdance Festival featured a lot of hard-hitting films. However, Yun Xie’s Under the Burning Sun outclassed every other movie in the festival by talking about a subject that is considered taboo in many communities. Set in a dystopian world where abortion is outlawed, Mowanza (played by Stephanie Pardi) finds herself …

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Andor Season 1 Review: Star Wars’ Most Subversive Spin-off Still Feels Urgent

After strike-induced delays, the second series of Andor arrives on 22 April 2025, almost two and a half years after the first series first appeared on Disney+. This time, it will deliver its twelve episodes over a might-tighter release window (twelve episodes over four weeks rather than ten). Revisiting Andor’s …

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8 Black Mirror Episodes You Should Watch If You’ve Never Seen It Before

Black Mirror, the hit dystopian anthology series, recently went into its seventh outing. Starting out humbly on Channel 4 in the UK, created by dead-pan funny guy Charlie Brooker, the show went onto new heights after he sold it to Netflix. The Americanisation of the show hasn’t landed well with …

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‘Severance’ Review and Recap – Season 2 Episode 10: Cold Harbor

Throughout season 2, Severance has consistently been the most streamed show on Apple TV+, even outpacing Ted Lasso. No doubt the finale, Cold Harbor, will be one of the most streamed episodes of the season as Ben Stiller brings this season to its compelling conclusion.  Throughout Season 2, there has been a push …

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‘The End’ Review: A Musical Film of Collective Delusion (Glasgow Film Festival)

In The End, Joshua Oppenheimer turns his camera from documentary towards fiction while continuing his exploration of the lies people tell themselves. The film opens with a young man (George Mackay) painstakingly painting miniature figures and landscapes onto a large diorama; on closer inspection, the diorama seems to encapsulate a …

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‘Mickey 17’ Review: Robert Pattinson Shines in Bong Joon-ho’s Latest Genre-Bending Adventure

Bong Joon-ho is one of the most fascinating filmmakers of the century. From The Host to Parasite, not forgetting Snowpiercer or Okja, the writer-director jumps from genre to genre, blending distinct tones with remarkable balance and efficiency. Joon-ho fits into that special category of filmmakers who simply cannot make a …

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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Review: Anthony Mackie Deserves to Wield the Shield

The post-Endgame era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been inconsistent and marked by numerous production issues, so the fact that Captain America: Brave New World is yet another project affected by reshoots and multiple script revisions isn’t at all surprising. It only reinforces the general concern surrounding the …

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‘Severance’ Review – Season 2 Episode 4: Woe’s Hollow

The AppleTV+ show Severance is an extraordinary feat of imaginative filmmaking. Over the course of a critically acclaimed first season, and three episodes of funky mystery-box plotting, and a crazy cliffhanger which saw Outie Mark begin to be psychologically recalibrated with his Innie, the show has consistently agitated and cajoled …

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The Gorge Movie Review

‘The Gorge’ Movie Review: Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller Make the Perfect On-screen Duo

The Gorge is a strong addition to the Apple TV+ movie catalog. Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy make this the perfect Valentine’s Day date night movie.  Apple TV+ is giving everyone an option this Valentine’s Day weekend by releasing a film starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Gorge. The streaming platform is known for its hit TV shows …

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‘Severance’ Review – Season 2 Episode 1: Hello, Ms. Cobel

When Apple announced their appearance on the streaming market, there was palpable excitement amongst media fans. Allowing filmmakers and creatives to play with big budgets to create vibrant, energetic stories nearly totally liberated from network executives was a concept unfamiliar within the media zeitgeist. That excitement soon deflated after AppleTV+ …

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Doctor Who: ‘Joy To The World’ Review – Musings on Festive Loneliness Spoiled By Rehashed Beats

When Doctor Who Christmas specials first began with the 2005 revival, they often existed lateral to main storylines bar the occasional outlier (such as The Time of the Doctor). With The Church on Ruby Road last year, though, Ncuti Gatwa’s tenure as The Doctor began with an episode that sparked …

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‘Planéte B’ Review: Film Questions A Reality in Which Corporations and the State Control Free Choice

The cinematic format holds the privilege of imagining numerous variables of what the future may be like. The screen platforms artists to compose frames through camera lenses to reflect on the present and create a future through imagery. In this sense, the French director Aude Léa Rapin, who previously directed …

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