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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hot on the red-and-white heels of 2020’s surprise hit, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 draws on a wealth of videogame icons and vocal talent for another helping of kinetic family fun.  This time, Sonic (Ben Schwartz) is trying to find his place in the sleepy suburb of Green Hills. That dose …

If you were making a game with the goal of being censored, you’d probably go with something like Martha is Dead. This historical horror indie shovels child abuse, self-harm, torture, and Nazis into its short playtime and then leaves you bloodied and dazed by the end, not really sure what …

You could easily spend 30 odd hours in Dying Light 2’s opening area and walk away satisfied, without even realising there’s another larger map to find and explore. So, yeah, it’s big. Techland may have panicked at the bad reaction to their promise of 500 hours to 100% everything but …

Early on in Simon Kinberg’s team-on-a-mission thriller The 355, one operative is described as being “good at everything except taking orders”. We’ve encountered this kind of maverick profiling before, of course, but the cliché isn’t the primary problem here.  While The 355 offers a welcome opportunity to see five women …