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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It was a pop culture moment like no other. The roll call of who died in Infinity War reads like a list of gut punch after gut punch: major Marvel heroes and villains alike all perished in the third Avengers movie as Thanos claimed several victims. While we’re several years …

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 …

The Dark Knight Returns (opens in new tab). Old Man Logan (opens in new tab). TMNT: The Last Ronin (opens in new tab). All sparkling examples of one of comics’ favorite tropes – aging a popular character and placing them in a new world beyond their control. These stories usually …