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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for both Shadow and Bone on Netflix, and Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha books! Turn back now if you’re not all caught up with the series and don’t want spoilers! Shadow and Bone is streaming now on Netflix, and if you’ve watched the whole thing, you …

Zack Snyder may be polarizing, but there’s no denying the impact he’s had on the film industry. Where he goes, audiences inevitably follow. From 2004’s Dawn of the Dead remake right through to 2021’s Army of the Dead, the director has built up a considerable fanbase who laps up every …

If Zack Snyder’s Justice League was a belated button on the so-called SnyderVerse, the director’s next project – zombie heist Army of the Dead – feels like the first confident steps of a fledgling franchise. Army of the Dead sees Dave Bautista’s Scott Ward assemble a motley crew of mechanics, …

Warning: Major spoilers for the Jupiter’s Legacy comics and Netflix show ahead! Turn back now if you haven’t watched all 8 episodes on Netflix!  Jupiter’s Legacy details the formation of superhero team the Union in flashbacks to the ’20s and ’30s – and whizzes back to the present to show us …

Remember the summer of 2019? All anyone could talk about was Avengers: Endgame, the box-office breaking superhero flick that brought Marvel’s Phase 3 to a climactic close. What was remarkable then, and continues to be now, is the three hour runtime: a necessary evil designed to give Marvel Studios the …

“Have the lambs stopped screaming, Clarice?” Hannibal Lecter (played exquisitely by Anthony Hopkins) asks Clarice Starling (the excellent Jodie Foster) during The Silence of the Lambs. There are few lines in cinema as iconic, and for good reason – it’s unsettling, creepy, and sticks with you long after the credits …

Warning: This article includes major spoilers for Cobra Kai season 3. Cobra Kai season 3 may only be 10 episodes long – and, let’s not kid ourselves, we devoured them within days of them appearing on Netflix – but the new series manages to cram in a whole lot for …

Every autumn, I rewatch Gilmore Girls. Whether I start right from the beginning or pick and choose an episode at random (thanks, Netflix), it’s become a yearly ritual, and I’m not alone in my tradition. The first episode of Gilmore Girls aired in October 2000, introducing the world to fast-talking, …

The New Mutants (opens in new tab), the last superhero instalment from the studio formerly known as Fox, has finally been released into cinemas after a tumultuous journey (opens in new tab). The X-Men spin-off, from The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone, was meant to mark the beginning …

Inherent Vice (opens in new tab) doesn’t fare too well on most Paul Thomas Anderson lists. Whenever a mag or site takes a stab at ordering his oeuvre, PTA’s 2014 stoner puzzle about the dying days of the counterculture typically lands just ahead of his 1996 debut Hard Eight (opens …