Warning: spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 6 ahead – turn back now if you have not seen the latest episode of the MCU show. Ms. Marvel’s finale brings all the pieces together. We get the suit, the name, and the embiggen powers, all wrapped up in a low-key episode that …
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Warning: this review contains major spoilers for The Boys season 3, episode 6. If you haven’t watched the new episode on Prime Video, turn around now! It’s here. Ever since The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke announced the series would adapt one of the comic’s wildest scenes, Herogasm, everyone’s been wondering …
Read More »Sony A80J review: “Simply a great TV”
It’s a testament to LG’s dominance in the OLED TV space that you’d be forgiven for not knowing that Sony has a couple of good ones too. The Sony Bravia XR A80J 4K HDR OLED is a sleeper hit that many didn’t know about or skipped because of its weaker …
Read More »Corsair HS65 Surround review: “A great value proposition”
The designers at Corsair themselves would probably be the first to admit it hasn’t been easy to translate that beautiful, sophisticated visual language of the company’s cases and peripherals over to headsets. Over the years we’ve had a rapid evolution of design, from circular earcups to the Void’s almost triangular …
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Though there have been plenty of eye-catching films among this year’s competition titles (Holy Spider, Decision To Leave, the divisive Triangle Of Sadness), none have really had the heft of a worthy Palme d’Or recipient. None too have felt like the sort of picture that goes on to have a …
Read More »Funny Pages review, Cannes: Safdie-produced A24 comedy “appears to have a direct line to the nervous energy of early ’70s cinema”
A budding young cartoonist’s picaresque rite of passage forms an entertaining foundation for this lo-fi feature debut from New York director Owen Kline, a protégé of the Safdie brothers who appears to have a direct line to the scrappy, nervous energy of early ’70s cinema. Playing in the Directors’ Fortnight …
Read More »Halo episode 8 review: “Tees the show up for an explosive finale”
Warning: spoilers for Halo episode 8 ahead. Turn back now if you haven’t seen the new episode of the Paramount Plus series. ‘Allegiance’ is going to get everyone talking. It’s a good, sometimes great, episode that tees Halo up neatly for an explosive finale – but is ultimately an instalment …
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Who doesn’t love a bit of Robin Hood? The fresh air! The wealth redistribution! The young men in green tights! Certainly, the board game industry has been as much of a sucker for the charms of Sherwood Forest as the rest of us, with various titles of fair-to-middling quality having …
Read More »Halo episode 4 review: “Getting better and better with each passing week”
Warning: spoilers for Halo episode 4 ahead. Turn back now if you haven’t seen the new episode of the Paramount Plus series. Master Chief is going home. The aptly-named ‘Homecoming’ sees John-117 return to the planet of Eridanus Two in a tense, emotionally rich episode that finally paints Doctor Halsey …
Read More »Moon Knight episode 1 review: The best start to a Marvel Disney Plus series yet
Moon Knight begins with a scene that’s surprisingly hard to watch. Things start simply enough: a man wraps a glass in a cloth. Smash! He breaks the glass with a crooked-looking cane, unwraps the shards, and pours them neatly into a pair of shoes, which are then placed on the …
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