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Watching Castle Rock as a longtime Stephen King fan feels like coming home. Sure, it’s a home filled with a sense of impending dread, a home that definitely has a dead body under the floorboards, but it’s familiar. You know that beneath the small town cosiness there are secrets and …

Lando Calrissian is reportedly back for Star Wars Episode 9 (opens in new tab). For those sighing and rolling their eyes at the prospect of the franchise going back to the Original Trilogy well for the umpteenth time – I don’t blame you. But hear me out: it’s a good …

The Rain is hard to watch. A Danish drama about the end of the world, after some kind of killer virus finds its way into rain clouds, The Rain is a tricky watch not because of the subtitles or a painful English dub (opens in new tab) (thankfully), but because …

Avengers: Infinity War (opens in new tab) was long touted as ‘the end of the first chapter’ of the MCU. That meant that big changes were incoming. Far bigger changes, surely, than we’d seen during the transitions between the series’ various ‘Phases’ so far. To stand out as a true …

Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) is very nearly here, which means it’ll soon be time to delve back into the world of the Hosts, DELOS, and questionable ethics! The only problem is – you can’t really remember everything that happened in the first season. There’s no shame in …

Lost in Space (opens in new tab) is out now on Netflix, worldwide. The show, which has received a mixed reaction from critics (personally, I loved it), eschews darker sci-fi themes like isolation and the alien in favour of family, adventure, and strong gender role models. It’s more an exploration …

It’s a tough task, remaking classic TV like Lost in Space (opens in new tab). Stick too closely to the original and you end up with something sentimental and out of kilter with most, more grounded modern TV. Stray too far from the concept, and you not only lose the …

Netflix has always done well out of being perceived as the cheeky young upstart, the brave disruptor of a stale status quo. A service that lives or dies by how well it can drive and maintain subscriptions, Netflix has a long history of delivering cool, unexpected events designed to prove …

Sony Pictures’ Venom film has wrapped filming and will soon head into post-production. From there, it’s only a matter of time before we get a trailer and then, on October 5, the final product. Despite it existing wholly separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or does it? (opens in new …

You saw the trailers, you read the reviews, you watched the series… and now you have lots of questions about Altered Carbon (opens in new tab). Who wouldn’t? It’s a complex and intriguing world Netflix has created (inspired by the original novels by Richard Morgan) and, at times, is confusing …